Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny, and the other, ...

Construction work on an agrivoltaic plant has unearthed a Roman villa approximately 2,000 years old in the small Italian ...

a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the melting pot of modern New York, ancient Rome was home to a vast array of cultures, with immigrants bringing ...

Her previous book, ‘ SPQR ‘, which is also available in Folio Society edition, took readers on an exhilarating journey back in time to the origins of the Roman Republic, a period in the history of ...

What was life like in ancient Rome? Find out how Rome began, learn about different Roman emperors and discover what people in Rome did for fun. What was life like in the Roman army? Learn about ...

Situated beyond S. Giovanni, due east of the city centre, Pigneto is primarily a ...

In 2014, workers building the restaurant on the outskirts of Rome stumbled upon an ancient Roman road. Such finds can usually halt the construction process, but in this case, "McDonald's ...

Mattern explores Galen’s life in her new book The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire (Oxford University ... things aren’t right because an ancient authority said them.

Chichen Itz was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ... June 5, 2024 — Bronze cauldrons were used by the ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...