Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and ... or slaves bought outside Roman territory. In hard times, it was not uncommon for desperate Roman citizens to raise money by selling ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

So how did the coins get into enemy territory? There are various possibilities. One of them is that the Gallic Empire tried bribing German elites either not to attack them, or to attack the Roman ...

At the height of its reign the Roman Empire held territory spanning from the Atlantic to the Tigris. The empire was a formidable political force that dominated the peoples of three separate ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

From 'Bachelor' alum Hannah Brown to 'Today' host Carson Daly, several big names have gotten in on the popular TikTok trend How often do you think about the Roman Empire? That's the viral question ...

The decline of the Roman Empire in the fifth century marked a turning point ... with a sovereign who ruled over a defined territory and established his lineage as the sole legitimate source of power.