Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At its most powerful, one in four people across the world lived under the Roman Empire. While commoners crammed into multi-storey ...

Here's what you’ll learn when you read this story: Excavation in Salzburg, Austria, ahead of a new residential development unearthed a Roman villa from the second or third century C.E. and a rare ...

In 48 B.C., Roman leader Julius Caesar was in the midst of a civil war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Roman Senate. After emerging victorious, he made an astute note: “Ut est rerum omnium magister ...

Attentive travelers in Germany can find evidence of the far-flung and fearsome Roman Empire, though most of these sites offer little more than traces to spark the imagination. But in the heart of ...