During their excavation work, archaeologists discovered an oval stone measuring roughly 8.3 by 5.7 inches in diameter and ...
From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...
Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Richard Fernando Buxton taught students in Block 5 about how warfare was conducted ...
The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire is often imagined as constant and widespread, but historical evidence suggests a more complex reality. In many cases, punishments were local and ...
How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...
A TikTok contrarian once made waves with a bold claim that the Roman Empire wasn’t real—something she later tried to walk back by saying her original video was just a “metaphor.” But her timelines and ...
The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.
Pliny the Elder was an intellectual powerhouse of ancient Rome. Though not a physician, in describing the ideal daily routine ...
This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome! This expose briefly covers the rise and fall of Rome, including: ...