Explore how artefacts, ruins, and landscapes tell the incredible story of Rome’s expansion and power.

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly ...

One class of ancient Roman gladiator called the hoplomachus was inspired by the equipment and fighting style of the Greek hoplite.

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce when depicting the past. To address this, scholars in classical studies have ...

Based on a long-standing history of cucina povera (or peasant-style cookery), many Roman recipes use a handful of local ingredients with great finesse to craft such hearty and delicious meals. Classic ...

From a small city-state on the Tiber, Rome grew into a vast empire spanning Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its legions conquered lands, its laws shaped governance, and its roads and ...

A roman mosaic shows a fighting North African Atlas bear. Jerzystrzelecki via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearly a decade ago, archaeologists found the broken skull of a bear among the ruins ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The 2017 reveal of a tiny but spectacular carved stone, just 1.3 inches wide, upended our understanding of Greek ...