Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from besties to foes ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine ...

The Cadastre of Orange is an ancient plan that shows the Roman centuriations (land distributions) that extended across the ...

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

Lost Legions follows desperate Roman soldiers scattered after the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, blending the historical with ...

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

The proverb " All roads lead to Rome " is said to have originated in relation to the Roman monument known as the Milliarium ...

Archaeologists explain the ongoing excavations at Pompeii and new findings about Vesuvius’ eruption date, slavery and daily life for ancient Romans. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii ...

Image: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images/Gizmodo Researchers are using cutting-edge AI models to “read” ancient scrolls superheated ... The towns were wiped off the map for over 1,500 years.

Archaeologists researching a battlefield in Switzerland discovered a Roman military camp 7,000 feet above sea level. The camp is roughly 2,000 years old and ties to the Roman battlefield in the ...

A 2,000-year-old ... Roman legions fought between 500 and 1,000 people from the Suanetes tribe on the hilltop. Researchers believe the war between the two groups was part of the Roman Empire's ...