Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there were limits to the military might of the Roman Empire – even if the Romans weren’t prepared to admit them. The imperial forces claimed they ...

Pope Francis was history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor ...

Rocky cliffs on Iceland's Coast (Image Credit: EricLiu08/Shutterstock) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of ... fact that the rocks come from nearly all geological ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Sir — It seems tax evasion is as old as civilisation itself. A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus. The case of ...

The urn belonged to a Roman man named Senicio, whose name was inscribed on the vessel. Along with his cremated bones, ...

“Ravenna attracted the best artists and architects from around the empire,” noted Claudia Frassineti ... many of its majestic Roman-era structures have simply vanished and been replaced ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman ... the empire. During the second century B.C., the region that is ...

Across the MENA region, spring doesn’t just signal a change in weather ... and simply being in nature. In Tunisia, the ancient Roman city of Sbeitla becomes a living stage each spring. The Sbeitla ...

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