Roman news, features and articles

The wall was built by Romans to protect against Germanic tribal attack.

The remains of the ornately decorated Roman buildings contain numerous artifacts, including "curse tablets," tiny axes and a horse-headed belt buckle.

Archaeologists in the Judaen desert have found four coins dating to the Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire.

A collection of artifacts found on an island in Wales could be part of a religious offering.

Archaeologists in England unearthed a 2,000-year-old clay head of a figurine depicting the Roman god Mercury.

A farmer in Bulgaria accidentally discovered two graves of a wealthy Roman-era family, but they appear to tell "a sad family story."

The Roman military base once housed more than 5,000 soldiers.

The egg-citing object may be the oldest unintentionally preserved egg ever found.

A hollowed-out animal bone was used by Romans to store a stash of poisonous seeds and is the first-ever evidence of the seeds' use during the Roman era.

Machine learning has helped decipher part of an ancient carbonized scroll found in a villa that likely once belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.