Rome is an ancient city full of art, history, adventure, ruins, and modern marvels. It’s possible to wander on your own, but ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Read More: Best Countries to Visit with Kids You and your crew can spend the first day getting to know Old Rome by taking a self-guided walking tour of the centro storico. This area offers a mix of ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...

SPANNING 1,000 years of Roman history, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard may seem several volumes too short. But this is clearly not intended as an exhaustive study but rather an extremely ...

“You’d think with all the torture and assassinations and other murders, there would be plenty of ghosts flitting about” in ancient Rome, says Felton, but ghost stories about famous people ...

We can gain more insight on our modern problem by turning to ancient Rome for a lesson on how drastically a republic can decline once it indulges in political violence. While the system was much ...

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 ...

But there is evidence that nanotechnology could have existed as far back as the 4th century in ancient Rome. That evidence lies in this, the Lycurgus cup. It’s an example of dichroic glass ...

The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress. Researchers think a temple dedicated to the mysterious deity may have stood nearby Sonja Anderson Texts like the "Sortes ...

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 ...