The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.

Iran has issued a sharp warning after the United States announced plans to deploy around 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. An ...

Here’s one story about how England began. By the late 4th century AD, Roman Britain was in serious decline. Its legions had been denuded by successive usurpers and pretenders, who kept taking the ...

The Roman military camp survived for over 2,000 years, and no one even knew that it existed all this time. Archaeologists studying Roman history in Switzerland were surprised that they had fortified a ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...

Before the Ides of March made him a martyr, Julius Caesar pulled off one of history's greatest military feats—outnumbered, ...

It was built almost 2,000 years ago to watch over the people of the north and defend the areas of Britain under Roman rule.

Now archaeologists working near Glasgow have rediscovered the remains of a forgotten defensive structure – buried beneath the grounds of a suburban garden in Bearsden. Newly published research by ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected ...

The Illyrians were a powerful network of Balkan tribes who resisted the expanding Romans and were a key force in the Ancient ...

Historically, unconditional surrender to the United States has been followed by prolonged US military occupation.

The phone call that probably saved my life was not a particularly welcome one at first. It was June 2023, and after a long ...