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 ...

The forum was the "heart" of ancient Roman cities, serving as a hub for commercial, political, religious and social activities.

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

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 ...

The last human sacrifices carried out in Rome—beyond considering the ludi gladiatorii as an acceptable adaptation of the ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Israel ramped up bombing in the historic city of Baalbek famed for its Roman temples, following an evacuation warning for 400 ...

Archaeologists excavating Gonio-Apsaros fortress uncovered an ancient Roman kiln with pottery inside, a wine press and a rare gold artifact. Photo from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean ...