After an amateur archaeologist found a Roman dagger in the hills of Switzerland in 2019, experts flocked to the site to carry ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women as equal to ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between ... called “conubium.” Augustus insisted on other restrictions on marriage. Citizens were not allowed ...

One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While Messalina, Claudius’ first wife, is said to have taken part in a ...

Ancient masters of engineering ... 33 B.C. After the chaotic civil wars Octavian (later Emperor Augustus) improves Rome’s water by building the Aqua Julia. 19 B.C. Marcus Agrippa, Augustus ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now Spain and the Middle East. But just how much do you know about these ...

Lead pollution likely led to widespread declines in IQ during the ancient Roman ... prosperity across the Roman Empire, beginning with the rule of the first emperor Augustus in 27 B.C. and lasting ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena ... head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE-14CE), and the body created ...