A solar plant project that began in 2021 in Almendralejo, Spain, took an unexpected turn when workers discovered settlements ...

Just 2 meters under the water of Playa de Palma, archaeologists have discovered a surprisingly well-preserved Roman merchant ship that sank about 1.7 thousand years ago. The vessel, dubbed the Ses ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

The death toll of the first plague pandemic, credited with wiping out tens of millions of people in the late Roman Empire, may have been exaggerated in past historical accounts, new research suggests.

Researchers have created a new road map of the Roman world that could help historians study how religion, migration, trade, and even pandemics spread across the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great ...

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A previously undiscovered 1,600-year-old burial site in northern England could provide key clues about a a largely undocumented period in British history, officials announced this week. The government ...