Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

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VIENNA — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world ... inhabited until the sixth century and then abandoned.

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by ... The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty years. Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword ...