it was nothing less than a symbol of Rome itself. To Romans, the baths proved that they were cleaner – and therefore better – than inhabitants of other countries. As the Roman Empire spread ...

When the empire left Britain ... and the figure holds a miniature Nike, a traditional Roman symbol of victory. For artifacts in the U.K. to be declared treasure, as this one was, they must ...

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

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...