Austrian ruins previously known as the Desolate Castle were actually once a Roman bridgehead fort. The site served as a strategic trade crossing for the Danube River as part of the historic Amber Road ...

Archaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: About 2,000 years ago, Roman soldiers dug a deep and narrow defensive ditch on the outside of a fort in an attempt to stymie oncoming enemies who ...

An Oxford scholar discovered an ancient Roman fort in his hometown in Wales. The finding could rewrite the known history of the Romans and the Celts in the region. Satellite imagery originally pushed ...

Shoes can give us an interesting insight into what people used to wear. Here are a dozen of the most extraordinary finds from the archaeological record.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered a "unique" gold artifact dedicated to an ancient deity at the site of a Roman fort, hinting ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...