In modern times, the term Pax Romana — a period spanning from 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. — may seem inaccurate, especially since there was some violence and unrest during the era. However, for many ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

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 ...