Nearly 2,000 years after the Roman historian Suetonius wrote "The Lives of the Caesars" in the second century C.E., his work ...
One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family. It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and ...
The site became known as the Dragulin villa cemetery, part of the Tragurium communal necropolis in the Roman city of ...
If you're looking for a reason to make this Ides of March into a vaguely themed game night, these games will be your new ...
When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.
An ancient book about Roman emperors has become a modern bestseller, captivating readers with its timeless stories of power ...
Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...
The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...
In the age of the Roman Empire, the Roman elite built mansions, or villas, around Lake Fusaro because of its hot springs and ...
It is a victory for the Roman triumphal arch that the monument’s influence survived long after the empire itself. (The obelisk is an ancient Egyptian architectural feat. So why are so few in Egypt?) ...
In the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, has been identified during excavations carried ...
The ancient Roman brooch found at an Iron Age ... They are “most commonly found along the borders of the Roman Empire, in eastern Gaul (modern-day France), Switzerland and the Rhineland (modern- ...