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Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

New research shows Roman gold and silver mining in the Balkans was central to imperial finances, coinage, and power for ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...