There's little worse than being struck by tummy trouble when you're trying to do your job – and even Roman soldiers could attest to that, a new study shows. Scientists at the universities of Oxford ...

Third century baths and latrine block at Vindolanda, the Roman fort close to Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. “The study of ancient parasites helps us to know the pathogens that infected our ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...