Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem.

Roman military officers stationed in Egypt kept pet monkeys imported from India as a symbol of wealth, according to a new study of an ancient animal cemetery containing the bodies of dozens of ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientific research has just revealed that Roman soldiers defending the northern frontier of Britannia faced an invisible enemy perhaps even more debilitating than the tribes beyond Hadrian's Wall. A ...

Tel Aviv [Israel], December 5 (ANI/TPS): The Mossad will have a new Director after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his Military Secretary, Maj-Gen Roman Gofman, is his choice to lead ...

How did pants go from being banned in Rome to being worn in the Emperor's presence? Part 2 traces the surprising journey of trousers from the northern frontiers to the heart of the empire. We explain ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

Archaeologists have long known that life on the Roman frontier was harsh, but new microscopic evidence from Hadrian’s Wall ...