Beds used as barricades, statues too rude for Facebook and a raging debate over a possible orgiastic cult... Pompeii's ...

From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

It’s amazing what can be found at the bottom of people’s gardens. The severed marble head of an unknown Roman philosopher, for example, or the tombstone of a former Roman slave. Two such fragments of ...

The only surviving ancient Roman cookbook reveals the ancient origins behind Europe’s most iconic dishes and flavors.

Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a ...

Even though the revolt of the would-be slave-king Eunus ended in bloodshed and defeat for the slaves of Sicily, the dreams ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

Mussolini frequently used “SPQR” to invoke comparisons between the glories of ancient Rome and his own regime, as part of a vision for what he called the “New Roman Empire.” More recently, SPQR’s ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of over 100 buried horses dating back to ancient Rome – but the skeletons weren't found in Italy. The excavation took place at Bad Cannstatt ...