Ancient Rome achieved urban milestones centuries ahead of its time, with innovations like shopping malls, public welfare, and ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... leaving the Senate—an institution that traced its history to the eighth century B.C.—as little more than a city council. By the time Odoacer ...

The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead ...

following the rise of the Roman Empire—and remained relatively high ... and historians to assess the potential effects on history." Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should ...

Theatres were built throughout the Roman Empire. Their design was usually a ... were popular while other plays focused on Roman history. The first theatre that was permanently built was the ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...