Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

A child born within the Roman Empire at this time would have roughly three times as much lead in their blood on average as kids in the US today, researchers estimate. Using modern evidence of lead ...

but came from places within the Roman empire, including Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. They were treated very differently. Legionaries were often given benefits, like land to farm when ...

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...