Roman Empire

British police made their second arrest over the cutting down of a 300-year-old tree near the Roman landmark of Hadrian’s Wall in the northeast of England.

The iconic Hadrian’s Wall ‘Sycamore Gap’ tree, voted England’s best tree in 2016, was cut down overnight, prompting a police response.

A team of Israeli archaeologists uncovered a rare cache of intact Roman swords dating back 1,900 years, to the time of the Bar Kochba revolt, when Jewish rebels briefly regained independence from imperial rule.

Italian authorities have vowed to find and punish the tourist who was filmed carving graffiti on the wall of the Colosseum in Rome.

Archeologists in Livorno, Italy, discovered 175 silver Roman denarii coins, nearly all of which were in good condition.

The coffin of a Roman aristocrat was exhumed in the United Kingdom. Researchers say this discovery could “unlock the secrets of one of the most significant periods in British history.”

Victor Davis Hanson, historian, professor, and author of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America, said on Wednesday that “open borders,” “globalism,” and “tribalism” are contributing to a collapse of the United States reminiscent of the fall of Rome.

The Mediterranean Sea was considerably warmer during the period of the Roman Empire 2000 years ago than it is today according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed the flattening of Stonehenge because of its ugly associations with human sacrifice.

Can we have a quick reality check and acknowledge that what is happening to America is a million times worse than what’s happening in Europe and is of much greater consequence?

In a new biography by Keith Koffler, Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon shares his reminiscences about Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, calling the tome one of his six most formative influences, and comparing America’s challenges to those to which our forebearers succumbed.

The tomb where Jesus is believed to have been buried is being unveiled again following nine months of restoration work that will be highlighted at a much anticipated ceremony Wednesday.

The Jerusalem Post reports: An ancient ballista ball, claimed to be one of those used by Jewish warriors fighting against the Roman Empire during the Bar-Kochba revolt, has been unearthed by high school students in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem.

CAESAREA (ISRAEL) (AFP) – Israel’s Antiquities Authority on Monday displayed cargo from a merchant ship that sank off the ancient Mediterranean port of Caesarea 1,600 years ago, including rare bronze statues and thousands of coins.

Europe. A land of many nations, cultures and customs, victim of centuries of countless wars, a war torn and bloodthirsty continent driven by imperialist ambition, the dream of forging an empire and unified continent has long been a European obsession

What should we do in the face of a relentless, and remorseless, enemy? The Roman Empire had a good answer. Yes, 2,000 years before Ronald Reagan summed up his Cold War strategy as, “We win, they lose,” the Romans had the same idea.