The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman forum from more than 2,000 years ago at the site of an unknown city. A team of researchers made the discovery at the archaeological site La Cabañeta in ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...

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One Ancient Roman historian argued that republics need the fear of common enemies to prevent political factions from tearing ...

An ancient map showing Thrace, Macedonia, and other past kingdoms. duncan1890/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images In antiquity, cavalry horses were trained to endure the piercing pipe music that led ...