The Roman army at its peak reached the north-western parts of modern day Saudi Arabia.The area between the Roman territory ...

A ccording to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 ...

Hüssen faces north, the Roman Empire at his back ... and mountain watchtowers marks Rome’s limits. At its peak in the second century A.D., the empire sent soldiers to patrol a front that ...

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 ...

What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their ... which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. The Romans could have obtained their water from ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

Not only does this present its own ethical questions ... in Nature Communications examined historical records from both empires at their peak (ca. 165 C.E. for the Roman Empire and ca. 2 C.E. for the ...

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 ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, the mighty Roman Empire embarked on its conquest of Britain, leaving an indelible mark on the island's history. Romans brought with them a wealth of new influences — from ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...