The gold coin was discovered over 300 years ago in Transylvania, but up until recently it was kept tucked away in a museum ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

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The newest coins date from about A.D. 175 during the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who died in 180. | Credit: ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Diocletian, who once ruled territory that now includes Croatia, tried and failed to rein in inflation by dictating prices.

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...