Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...

Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem.

Learn how parasites preserved in an ancient sewer reveal how disease spread among Roman soldiers.

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were ...

A Roman cemetery containing 100 warhorses and a man buried among them has been discovered in Germany, posing a social and military mystery.

Archaeologists have long known that life on the Roman frontier was harsh, but new microscopic evidence from Hadrian’s Wall ...

Scientific research has just revealed that Roman soldiers defending the northern frontier of Britannia faced an invisible enemy perhaps even more debilitating than the tribes beyond Hadrian's Wall. A ...

The Battle of Pydna in 168 BC was arguably the most consequential clash between ancient Rome and the Kingdom of Macedon.

The Cirencester Amphitheatre is one of the largest surviving Roman amphitheatres from the Roman occupation of Britain ...

Development work in Heilbronn’s Neckargartach district revealed a striking archaeological surprise when teams uncovered a 500-meter Roman road, a roadside settlement, and a temple dedicated to Mercury ...