Well, at that time all these places were part of the Roman Empire. An empire is a group of lands all ruled from one place…and the Roman Empire was ruled from Rome. It all began about two ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If social media is anything to go by, it sounds like we’re all thinking about it quite a lot. But so much of how we imagine life back then has been ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." He looked after the family's business affairs ...

The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared himself as the first Roman emperor. The official date of ...