SUN, sea and sand – what’s not to like about a trip to Spain? But there is so much more to the country than the islands, the ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on ...

Spain is full of cities with deep roots in history, but few have as rich and well-preserved a heritage as Mérida, capital of the Extremadura region.

Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy. There were soldiers from Africa, France, Germany, Spain and the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained, they had the ...

As its name suggests, the equestrian class was originally composed of the Roman cavalry ... such as Gaul and Spain. It was a sign that talented men from all over the empire could hold important ...

Archaeologists found a small statuette of the Egyptian goddess Isis during excavations at Pagus Belsinonensis, an ancient Roman settlement located in present-day Mallén, Spain, according to a ...

The Romans occupied what's now Spain from 218 B.C. until roughly the fourth century A.D. The fortress burial included a " pugio " — the standard dagger of the Roman army — that suggests the dead man ...

Six kilometers from Tarragona (roman Tarraco in Catalonia, Spain), next to the ancient Via Augusta, stands a stone monument ...