I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

Galen wrote that "the Horrea are the safest place in Rome: the structure is fireproof and always controlled by the imperial guard". The warehouses were destroyed during the Commodus fire in 192 CE ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...

Nor do they all follow the same exact trajectory. Imperial Rome nicely illustrates some of these tendencies. Expansion made republican government impractical, and after the civil wars of the First ...

Rome is easily the closest thing you'll ever find to a time machine. Photo / I arrived by sea, pulling in at Civitavecchia (built circa 200) aboard the Sun Princess, which was launched in 2024.

Originally marking land borders under Roman Emperor Diocletian's tax reforms, the stone provides insight into ancient land ownership, local settlement patterns, and imperial administrative practices.