Drought encouraged Attila and his Huns to violently attack the Roman Empire in the 5th century, a new study suggests. Researchers have analysed climate data based on tree rings that provides ...

The Romans may have left an impressive legacy of roads, irrigation and education in Britain but it was always thought they took their DNA with them when they left. However, this theory could soon be ...

There is mounting evidence that after the Romans left Britain, the region's economy didn't suffer as badly as once thought. Reading time 2 minutes The period after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain ...

Far outside the walls of the Colosseum in Rome, clans prepared to battle the Romans in Europe by taking hits from an attachment on their belts, researchers say. Yoal Desurmont via Unsplash In the ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...