Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... extensive debate over the extent and length of the ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

An office building from the 1930s in London was about to be demolished — until remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman basilica beneath a London office block, revealing the political heart of Londinium.