Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

The end of the Republic was of course a very different thing from the fall of the Roman empire. Indeed, the empire proceeded to much greater strength and stability after the Republic than during.

Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new ...

Julius Caesar, who brought the republic to an end, walked a path to power paved by charisma and military accomplishments—and his mastery of Roman campaign-finance practices.

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

Class struggle isn’t a modern invention — it’s been with us for thousands of years. Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and ...

To the editor: Spencer Klavan's elegy for our "dying republic" leaves out one important fact: The Roman republic was a society of, by and for the patrician land-owning class — in other words ...

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel ...

It all started with the Roman Republic, established in 501 B.C. as a model of government that centuries later the fledgling United States and European nations would look toward. Checks and ...

The Roman Republic was already on the brink of collapse, and it may have been Okmok that was the final straw. “My understanding is that food scarcity and associated civil unrest was pretty ...