Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an ...

Border skirmishes continued throughout the early empire, but the barbarian ... were poised to take Aurelianum (modern-day Orleans, above), occupied by Alans. Roman commander Aetius arrived ...

During the time of the Roman Empire, the Senate had less power ... AD122 and ordered that a wall should be built near the modern-day border between Scotland and England, which marked the northern ...

While third-century Roman coins are frequently discovered within the empire's borders, finding such a ... the Gallic Empire — a region including modern-day France, Belgium, Spain and parts ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...