An ancient burial site reveals how Etruscans survived the conquest by Rome, suggesting a cultural osmosis not a subordination of one population to another.

A massive volcanic eruption on the other side of the planet may have created conditions that led to the rise of the Roman Empire, researchers say.

A huge number of Roman emperors never saw the second year of their rule, according to a new study that calculated their "time to violent death."

A new translation of an old text tells a different story of how the technology people used to make wine and olive oil changed in the ancient Roman world.