Hundreds of weapons from the Roman era have been unearthed in a park in a city located in southeastern France. These findings are thought to be remnants of the Battle of Lyon, which occurred on ...

The Second Punic War was one of the greatest struggles of the ancient world. Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to invade Italy. He crushed Roman ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman forum from more than 2,000 years ago at the site of an unknown city. A team of researchers made the discovery at the archaeological site La Cabañeta in ...

An ancient Roman bronze helmet from 241 B.C. was discovered in extraordinary condition near Italy's Aegates Islands, where ...

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought ...

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 ...

Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

A bronze battering ram recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Soprintendenza del Mare An Italian cultural heritage outfit has announced the recovery of a Roman battering ram from ...

A new study analyzing declassified Cold War satellite imagery reveals 396 previously undocumented Roman forts and reports that these forts were constructed from east to west, spanning from what is now ...