Archaeologists discovered the roughly 2,500-year-old sculpture of a young man while conducting excavations at Sardis in ...

The legions of the Roman Republic set out to subdue the Mediterranean world in the name of the city. Rome’s military leaders ...

Did the Romans truly disappear, or do their descendants still live among us? Explore the remarkable story of the Romei, the ...

Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and nature. The Roman Empire was the world's first ...

What has changed since the times of the Romans when coliseums were built for entertainment and amusement? The answer: only the architecture. The objectives live on, but on a much grander scale. “Bread ...

After hundreds of years of colonial dominance in Europe, the western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E., weakened by internal strife and attacking Germanic tribes. The empire’s long reign and ...

The Roman Empire may have fallen, but its roads continued to shape history for centuries. Discover how ancient highways survived barbarian invasions, medieval kingdoms, and even the rise of modern ...

Prior to the Romans, Greece was the only part of Europe to have had toilets. But by the peak of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD, the Romans had introduced sanitation to much of their domain, ...

What happens when the greatest empire in the world pulls out and leaves you to your fate? Who fills the power vacuum? Who keeps law and order? How does civilisation survive? AD 410: the Empire is in ...

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once said, “be like the cliffs against which the waves break and break.” Here are the stories of eight nations who stood like cliffs against the might of Rome and ...

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...