Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture ... he coldly played a fiddle while the city burned. (These notorious Roman emperors became ghostly legends.) It’s a vivid image—but also a ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

The first city of a million was built two thousand years ago. But how did they make Ancient Athens and Rome work without petrol, gas or electricity? Professor Wallace-Hadrill finds out.

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Gladiator II. Ridley Scott's Gladiator II features a scene in which a ...

Excavators first unearthed the barracks in the late 1700s. Among the ruins they found a bronze helmet, with a circular brim, ...

Plans to offer Airbnb customers the chance to take part in gladiator-style battles in Rome’s Colosseum have been decried as ...

Rome is undergoing a facelift for the pope’s 2025 Jubilee celebrations, but a month before it starts, much of the Eternal ...

About 32 million tourists and pilgrims are expected during the upcoming Holy Year in the Eternal City, which is already ...

During the summer of 2020, archaeologists found the remains of an arena from the Roman era in Turkey. The arena must have ...