Roman general Gaius Marius's soldiers weren't happy at all when he forced them to wear backpacks—yet they helped the Romans ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

Before modern engineering existed, Rome was already mastering concrete, aqueducts, and siege weapons that could level cities.

This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome! This expose briefly covers the rise and fall of Rome, including: ...

The 2,200-year-old artifact was used in a famous battle between Rome and Carthage as part of the Punic Wars. Reading time 2 minutes An Italian cultural heritage outfit has announced the recovery of a ...

In the summer of 2020, a British family was taking a walk on its farmland in Rutland, a county in England’s East Midlands, when they came across an unlikely scattering of pottery, tiles, and oyster ...