Nearly 2,000 years ago this was the line that divided the Roman Empire from the rest of ... We sat amid the ruins and watched orange gas flares from Iraqi oil wells flicker on the horizon.

Archaeologists and students excavated a hill with an old stone wall and uncovered some ancient Roman ruins, confirming a decades-old theory. Photo from University of Granada Archaeologists and ...

That was the renowned Roman empire, which lasted for about 500 years. So, what caused this mighty empire to crumble into ...

Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." He looked after the family's business affairs ...

At the time, he was a film student at New York University studying under film director and producer Roman Polanski. Investigators would later learn that Alcala’s job as a photographer gave him ...

Archaeologists began excavating a site in Villeneuve-sur-Lot in 2017 ahead of home construction. They expected to find something because of the area’s proximity to Excisum, a prosperous ancient Roman ...

Rodney Alcala was convicted of murdering seven women and children in the '60s and '70s, two survived their encounters with the serial killer Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE.

According to a 2010 People profile, Alcala graduated from UCLA, and, as you hear him say in the film, took a film class there with convicted rapist and Rosemary’s Baby director Roman Polanski.

In June, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced the excavation of a new room, not yet open to the public, in the ruins of Pompeii ... critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the ...