Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The coin, believed to be the only of its kind discovered in the British ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A rare Roman gold coin (aureus) has gone on display at Scotland's only museum dedicated to Roman and Iron Age Scotland. The aureus was ...

They were masters of ancient Rome – powerful, ruthless military generals who had expanded the sphere of Roman influence ... as the Caesar named his grandnephew Octavian (who would later take the name ...

A rare 2,000-year-old Roman coin discovered by a 76-year-old farmer has been sold at auction for £4,700. Ron Walters, from Kingswinford, unearthed the gold coin depicting Emperor Aulus Vitellius ...

An 1,955-year-old gold Roman coin has been sold for thousands of pounds at auction. It was unearthed by 76-year-old grandfather Ron Walters, in Dudley in the West Midlands. He finally struck gold ...