It is unlikely that armies have fared any better throughout history without proper sanitation and waste management. Consider, ...

However, the Empire used many of these tribes as military forces in the Roman Army. In AD410, a tribe called the Visigoths stormed into the city of Rome. They killed many people and the Roman ...

In the spring of 367 CE, Roman Britain was besieged from all sides and by all kinds of forces. Harvests shriveled. Soldiers ...

At the core of the army were its legions ... taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had ...

This head was decapitated by an invading army from Meroë in modern-day Sudan. They buried the head under the temple steps as an insult to Augustus.

31, and you’ll be entered to win an iPad. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at [email protected]. Students visit the Empire Room in the Palmer House as part of the Ancient Rome in ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...