The legions of the Roman Republic set out to subdue the Mediterranean world in the name of the city. Rome’s military leaders ...

“Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued, And Rome grew polished, who till then was rude.” Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the ...

A railway project has opened an unexpected window into Roman Britain after archaeologists uncovered a rare coin and other artifacts dating back nearly 2,000 years. The discoveries, made in ...

Was Honorius actually the emperor who accelerated Rome's collapse more than anyone else? Explore the decisions, failures, and missed opportunities that pushed the Western Roman Empire toward its final ...

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For a brief period in the third century C.E., a Roman naval officer named Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius presided over Britain and northern Gaul as the self-declared “emperor of the north.” Tasked ...

This shipwreck tells the story of the people, trade routes, and exchanges that made the Mediterranean a crossroads of ...

The discovery was made by an underwater fisherman who described it as the "most incredible" in his life.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the ...

Fisherman and free-diver Giacomo De Mola was using sonar technology to scan the seafloor off the southwest coast of Sicily ...

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