The ancient Dacians, ancestors of modern-day Romanians, were a remarkable civilization that flourished in the territory of present-day Romania, particularly in the region of Transylvania. Skilled ...

Reading an Ancient Comic Strip. The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known ...

Near a sleepy village in southern Romania, a festival featuring historic re-enactments evokes a time when the region was part of the easternmost Dacian provinces of the Roman Empire.

At 126 feet tall, cut from marble, adorned with a spiral frieze intricately carved with 155 scenes, Trajan’s amazing column is a war diary that soars over Rome. Its tale: how the emperor ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

In a Romanian forest near the hill of Măgura Călanului, an unexpected discovery has revealed a unique set of iron tools that belonged to and were used by a Dacian stonemason more than 2,000 years ago, ...

For example, in one of the most complete iconographic monuments to Roman militarism and imperialism, Trajan’s Column (built in Rome in AD 113 with the spoils from the Dacian wars in what is now ...

For example, in one of the most complete iconographic monuments to Roman militarism and imperialism, Trajan’s Column (built in Rome in AD 113 with the spoils from the Dacian wars in what is now ...