"Something told me to go to that field. I wasn't expecting much, but then it just snowballed." English contractor David Dunn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...

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 ...