The decade-long research, published recently in Roman Urbanism in Italy, rewrites the timeline of the ancient empire’s collapse. So far, at sites across the city Interamna Lirenas, archaeologists have ...

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding ...