Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated ...

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Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the end of a lavish Roman lifestyle in Britain. But new radiocarbon dating of a finely crafted ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new movie called The Girl will revisit the notorious Roman Polanski sexual assault scandal from the perspective of victim Samantha Geimer. Based on Geimer’s memoir The Girl: A Life in the ...

Volunteer archaeologists armed with satellite imagery helped identify four previously unknown Roman-era marching camps. The camps, all located in Germany, were dated to the early third century C.E.

This video follows Roman Britain into its most violent and uncertain age, from Severus’ devastating northern wars to usurpations, civil conflict, and relentless barbarian raids. It shows how the ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...

Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem. Around 2,000 years ago, the Roman military relied on cats to keep rats out ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Everyone gets a pass for watching seasonal cliches during the holiday season. Binge on Hallmark movies, force another family screening of “It’s a Wonderful Life”—no one will look askance. Not so if ...