Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

More than 160 objects from the period of the Roman Empire when Emperor Trajan reigned come to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

In Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a mass grave dating back to the third century CE that indicates another key to ...

The Great Illyrian Revolt, erupting under Emperor Augustus, was one of the most serious uprisings faced by Rome in the early Imperial era. This video explores how Illyrian tribes rose against Roman ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

The origins of Rome have been debated for centuries but one tale has prevailed over the rest: twin brothers Romulus and Remus ...

In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...

It turns out Caesar Augustus was an undeserving braggart. He claimed, “I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” But new research by a university professor has found that only a ...

The ancient civilizations of the classical world inspire admiration, whether we think of the elaborate monuments of ancient Egypt, the academic achievements of classical Greece, or the domination of ...

At its height, the Roman Empire spanned from Spain to Syria and from Scotland to Sudan, dominating the Mediterranean and encompassing a quarter of the world’s population. While its size remained ...

The magnificent Altar of Peace celebrates the imperial order of Augustus’ Rome and his place in the fabric of the cosmos ...

The chariot races and gladiator fights of the Roman Empire haven’t, apparently, been totally lost to the ages. A new TikTok trend is pulling back the curtains shrouding the minds of boyfriends, ...