Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny, and the other, ...

Ancient Roman people made these bronze coins. They show portraits of Roman leaders called emperors. These emperors were among the first people in the world to put their own faces on coins. When the ...

It served as a hub for commercial, political, religious and social activities ... Researchers have uncovered the remains of an ancient Roman forum (not pictured) at an archaeological site in ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.

The Academy Award-winning actor portrays Macrinus in Ridley Scott’s new epic, which premieres in theaters November 22.

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

Through stories, it was rumored that a major trade road went through a forest outside Pomiechówek, but it had never been searched for fears of uncovering hidden explosives from World War II. Polish ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed a spectacular Roman forum that they believe was used to help integrate new tribes into the ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other ... A view of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city near modern Naples in Italy, is seen in 1979. An ...