Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling the Celts. At that time, the Roman Republic was protecting its new ...

At times they put themselves at the service of Rome. Attila, king of the Huns from 445, invades Gaul. At the head of a Roman-Germanic coalition, Aetius defeats Attila at the Battle of the ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire. The inscription had worn away ages ago, but Tassan, a ...

To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a declaration of war. Caesar chose war. Conquering HeroA bust from the National ...

Between 58 and 50 BC, Caesar used his expertise in military strategy, along with the Roman army’s training and discipline to conquer and subdue the rest of Gaul, up to the river Rhine.

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic ... Rising through the political ranks, he eventually became governor of Gaul. This gave him the chance to make lots of money, while his abilities ...

In 72 BC Spartacus and his army marched north towards Gaul (the Roman term for a region covering France, the Low Countries and northern Italy). They fought off a series of attacks from Roman ...

This object arrived at Piddington from Gaul or Rome and may have been brought back as a souvenir from the games.A finely detailed late 2nd-3rd century AD Roman clasp knife found in the courtyard ...

The outrage that followed set the stage for the civil wars that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the ...

Previously, the series covered Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul, his battles against Pompey ... early conquests in Germania, which shaped Rome’s northern frontier. Trump dashes hope for last ...