Ancient Greek and Roman armies were large and fearsome for their time, but their warfare tactics and leadership during battle ...

In the 1930s, archaeological excavations at Dura-Europos, Syria, uncovered an unusual battle scene. Skeletal remains buried near the ancient city's western walls indicated that a fight between ...

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman centurion ...

Archaeologists in northwest France have unearthed what may have been a temple to the Roman war god Mars, dating to the first century B.C. The temple, or sanctuary, is part of a Roman complex spread ...

A huge collection of marble sarcophagi. Thousands of artifacts from a world-class museum. The longest road tunnel in the ...