Fictionalized action films based on the retellings of the Persian Wars, a series of conflicts between the Empire of Persia and Greek city-states.

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer ... well into the 3 rd century AD. A geophysical survey has allowed ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...

Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When the Roman Empire began collapsing in the 4th century AD, Christianity prevailed, and the Roman Catholic Church kept the fragmented territories ...

“The camp was the permanent military base for over 5,000 Roman soldiers for more than 180 years, from 117-120 to about 300 AD. Two main roads intersected at the center of the camp and its headquarters ...

In fact, the Xiongnu Empire dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the Huns appeared in Europe. Can DNA lineages that bridge these three centuries be found? To address this ...

The first major settlement on the site where modern London stands was established by the Roman Empire around 47 AD. As such, finding artifacts from that era tends to come up with some frequency. Most ...

The first-of-its-kind find outside the borders of the Roman Empire add a level of intrigue to the origins of the stash. A surprisingly well-preserved shirt of Iron Age chainmail added another ...

Known as the “Ephesus of the western Black Sea,” Prusias ad Hypium stands as a testament to ancient ... whose kingdom was later integrated into the Roman Empire. Dating back to the 3rd century BC, the ...

We put some trenches in and that started turning up archaeological features with Roman pottery in them." In the first century AD, the Roman ... More than 300 moulds, dated to around AD238, were ...

Newton scrawled this ominous warning on a letter slip above a series of mathematical calculations more than 300 years ago ... and settled on 800 AD: the year that the Holy Roman Empire was founded.