Yet Trimalchio was mistaken. He had not reckoned with Kim Bowes, professor of ancient history and archaeology at the ...
Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of the early fifth-century Roman Empire. Doors were slammed in immigrants’ faces when they asked for food, ...
A painting of the library in the house of Domitian on the Palatine. Rome's long history is explored in a new illustrated book on archaeology and history. Wikimedia Commons Rome wasn’t built in a day, ...
Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be the largest Roman industrial complex ever discovered in northern Europe, hidden along the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland, England. The ...
When divers plunged into the waters off Sicily’s Egadi Islands last summer, they didn’t just find rare artifacts from ...
The Roman Empire may have fallen more than 1,500 years ago, but its streets never truly disappeared. Across Europe and the ...
The Roman Empire is one of the most famous empires in history, which at one point was basically the world's first superpower with how much of the world it encompassed. It has been a fascinating ...
One of the most famous inscriptions from Roman antiquity is from Vindolanda, a fort along Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain. This is the so-called "birthday letter" of Claudia Severa, who was writing ...
At the Values Voter Summit this month, former White House strategist Steve Bannon compared Sen. Mitch McConnell to Julius Caesar. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has compared President Trump ...