Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common with mostly Albanian tribes settling in the fertile plains ...

A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...

Coin moulds which were used for counterfeiting money during Roman times are to go on display in a West Yorkshire museum. The ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

A collection of coin moulds was found at Ackton Meadows in Castleford, which are thought to date to around 260 CE, a period ...

Sometimes last month feels like a long time ago, but considering our planet, the long perspective can really help.

Istanbul is one of the world's biggest cities, growing larger still every year. Its rapid expansion is putting enormous ...

In 2024, Museums Worcestershire launched a fundraising campaign to acquire a hoard of ancient Roman coins discovered in Worcestershire, England. "The fundraising campaign is doing really well ...

How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think ... It was during the period of the French Revolution that the gesture was invented by revolutionary republicans who ...

The findings suggest that lead pollution due to human activities began approximately 1,200 years earlier than previously thought, and that the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean ...