One of the most hidden yet spectacular sites of Roman Britain is the military complex at Tomen Y Mur in Gwynedd, Wales.

Why do people in ancient and medieval art always seem so emotionless?

In the last final years before the Tetrarchy tore itself apart, a Roman emperor that few people today have ever heard of built himself a bathhouse unlike anything else found in his empire.

Roman religion was animistic in nature, and they lived in a world full of gods, entities, household spirits, and fairly crackling with divine energy.

How expendable was the Roman javelin? Once thrown, would a soldier go back to find it?

Why is the process of Romanisation apparently absent in some areas of the Empire but not others?

Roman religion was essentially a form of animism, with the world around them fairly crackling with divine energy.

Someone’s mapped nearly 300,000 km of Roman roads

Karnak's new stela shows Tiberius among the gods.

Roman history likes to look back at people like Agrippa and make judgments. But what would Romans have made of us?

Historians say lots of key sites are protected but then never reopened on private sites.

The auxiliary fort at Vindolanda, which lies south of, and predates, Hadrian’s Wall is the source of inarguably the most incredible Roman treasures on the planet, including this extraordinary woven wi...

Could a citizen be kidnapped by slavers in the Roman Empire? What did the law say?

Stonehenge is, as everyone knows full well, a magic place, where the Moon doth rise with a dragon’s face, where the dew drops cry and the cats meow and where banshees live and they do live well.

A Roman shrine in Suffolk built beside a 4,000-year-old burial mound reveals pig skulls with coins, animal offerings and centuries of ritual

Archaeologists found 25 turtle figurines in Gedikkaya Cave in Türkiye, some dating back 16,500 years and linked to prehistoric ritual

No written records mention a fight in this specific part of Vienna at the time of the men's deaths. But the brutal nature of their injuries, particularly to the pelvis area, indicates that these indiv...

Did Romans standing in the queue at the thermopolium complain about the weather? Did they engage in small talk?

Is it possible that we have misread ancient beliefs and that, actually, we might have just missed the 'joke'?

What was dating like in ancient Rome? Did you date, or was it all arranged?

Did the Romans have a specific god for infertility? Who would a woman pray to in order to avoid getting pregnant?

How did ancient Romans deal with heatwaves in a cramped city environment?

There’s a commonly accepted idea that ancient people explained the world around them by inventing myths. But how true is this?

What would a Roman gentleman do should he find himself the sudden victim of an unexpected 'boner'? How did society, and he, deal weith such an event?

Did Caesar go mad with power at the end of his reign, or did he lose control of a game that, until then, he had been the master of?

Maps of the ancient world always look empty. Where was everybody? Was most of the ancient world an empty wilderness? How many people actually lived there?

How Nero's golden palace gave us the word 'grotesque', why Merlin is named after Carmarthen (not the other way round), and the etymology hiding in plain sight.

Did the Romans like to dance, and if they did, what sort of dancing did they engage in?

Was Shakespeare's Caesar the same man the Romans saw and the same man we see today? Or are there different historical versions of the legend of Caesar?

Did Roman soldiers build a brand new fort at the end of every day's march? The answer is rather surprising.