Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

Samaria or Sebaste - capital in ancient & Herodian times (same place, name changed) JUDEA - at times a separate province; at other times a sub-province of the Roman Province of SYRIA Jerusalem ...

The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ... Roman generals served as patroni for the people they conquered, while Roman provinces or cities often sought out an influential ...

Parts of Germany were Roman provinces in ancient times, with Trier a prosperous and well-developed centre in the west.

The latest short film from filmmaker Octavian Repede, The Death of the Centurion – A mystery story of the past frames itself ...

The Roman Forum was a hub for ever day ancient Roman life ... you can then get a command somewhere or govern a province, then make that money back. But if you lose, you're screwed.” ...

Inside a basilica in Turkey, researchers have unearthed a bone-filled tomb that may have belonged to a Roman gladiator named ...

The statues were discovered under the muddy ruins of an ancient bathhouse in San Casciano dei Bagni, a hilltop town in the Siena province, about 160km (100 miles) north of the capital Rome.

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire ... This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about food and circumcision.

Incredible now and then images of the world’s most famous landmarks from the towering Giza Pyramids to the ruins of Pompeii and the Great Wall of China.

Even so, the mineral salts present in the liquid from the tomb are consistent with the white wines currently produced in the territory of Andalusia, the ancient Roman province of Baetica.