Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Around 70 CE the Roman writer Pliny – who later died in the eruption that buried Pompeii – complained that 100 million sesterces (a type of coin) drained from the empire every year due to ...

She lost her kingdom once; regained it; nearly lost it again; amassed an empire; lost it all. A goddess as a child ... actually looked like. Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime ...

The road was probably built in the first century A.D., and even after 2,000 years it retained the authority of empire. We might have imagined joining a clanking company of Roman soldiers ...

The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

The coin is thought to be the only one of its kind to be found in Britain A Roman coin that is believed ... "Belt buckles, buttons - they've all got a story to tell." ...

A Roman coin that is believed to be the first of its kind found in ... "Belt buckles, buttons - they've all got a story to tell." ...

Over the past four months, President Trump’s entry into the world of cryptocurrency has been extremely fruitful and extremely unregulated, thanks to the fact that his administration has stripped ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire ... rocks come from nearly all geological regions ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically ... The victims were all male. Most were aged 20 to 30 years old and generally ...