Hüssen faces north, the Roman Empire at his back ... Defining and defending borders is a modern obsession too. As politicians have debated building a wall between the United States and Mexico ...

They are “most commonly found along the borders of the Roman Empire, in eastern Gaul (modern-day France), Switzerland and the Rhineland (modern-day Germany).” How did a Roman brooch end up ...

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

During the time of the Roman Empire, the Senate had less power ... AD122 and ordered that a wall should be built near the modern-day border between Scotland and England, which marked the northern ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...