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 ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced ...

This detail from Rome's Trajan's Column hints at what the Roman soldiers who built the fort recently discovered near Trieste may have looked like. Farrell Grehan/CORBIS A team of researchers ...

The gateways of an ancient Roman fort in Britain are roughly aligned with the light from the sun during the summer and winter solstices a design that would have resulted in a striking scene on the ...

An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...

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 ...

Humans have had canine companions for as long as 40,000 years, so archaeologists were excited but not overly surprised when they stumbled upon pupper paw prints while excavating a 1,900 year-old Roman ...

At the Late Roman era fortress of Hisn al-Bab between ancient Egypt and Nubia, archaeologists recovered the skeleton of a young man who met a violent death and who was left exposed where he fell after ...

Archaeologists in Exeter found 1,900-year-old military barracks under Roman town house ruins during excavations at a cathedral, photos show. Photo from Exeter Cathedral At the far reach of the ancient ...