Romans Archive

AncientPages.com - Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human beings and discuss ways

AncientPages.com - Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have used gold impurities in silver coins and lead pollution in Greenland ice to show that the Romans were early pioneers of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Garforth in Leeds, UK, have made a "once-in-a-lifetime" find. Scientists report they have discovered multiple ancient burials. The hidden cemetery

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  In Kortessem, Belgium,  a metal detectorist has found a fragment of a puzzling Roman artifact. The finder reported his mysterious object to the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hadrian's Wall, also known as Picts' Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in Alexandria, Egypt the catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa is one of the Seven Wonders of the Medieval Ages. It’s an archaeological

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - On March 10, 241 B.C.  the Carthaginian fleet was totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily by the Romans. The event

David Tee - AncientPages.com - When two influential and powerful nations collide, conflict and wars will occur. Carthage had ruled much of the Mediterranean through mercenary armies for

David Tee - AncientPages.com - The name may bring fear to many, as this ancient society is forever linked with those who cause destruction to property - vandals, and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The red dragon on the national flag of Wales is most often associated with the battle standard of King Arthur and other ancient Celtic

AncientPages.com - History books say that barbarian tribes of Huns, under their violent and cruel leader Attila, triggered the fall of one of history's greatest empires: Rome. However, a new study conducted

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures regarded number 9 (or ‘Nine’) as a symbol of perfection, unity, and freedom. Even in ancient Egypt, it was attached great

AncientPages.com - Archaeological evidence shows that despite hygienic innovations introduced by the Romans, intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in