A fragment of a wall painting showing two lovers in bed from the House of L Caecilius...
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The Vandals were buried beneath the awful weight of metaphor. Dr Case It might seem a stretch to...
By Matthew Merighi / 06.17.2014 Assistant Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program Tufts University They poured gold down...
What happens to Romulus and Remus? Wolfgang Zwanzger/Shutterstock Questions of how, and when, a city “founded”. By Dr. Laura Swift /...
Excavating the eastern wall section of Halmyris in 2016. Emily Hanscam, Author provided Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube. By Emily Hanscam / 07.25.2017...
Piazza del Popolo. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND From the Temple of Heliopolis to the centre of Rome, the massive stone column has...
Wellcome Trust/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA At Ebbsfleet, in northeast Kent, archaeologists have finally uncovered the site where JuliusCaesar’s fleet landed in 54 BCE...
Not so august now. Stefano Carniccio/Shutterstock Monument restoration requires lacking funds. By Alice Borchi / 08.19.2014 PhD Candidate,...
One of the two exposed foundations of an Ancient Roman triumphal arch from the 1st century AD...
A rich Roman villa from the 3rd – 4th century AD has been discovered some 30 km...
Angled shot of the Colosseum in Rome / Photo by Jimmy Walker, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Nicholas K....
An over-life-size statue of the goddess Venus is the centerpiece of J. Paul Getty, the Collector (Gallery...
Greek and Roman Glass (214) in the reinstalled Getty Villa Centuries-old glassworking techniques dazzle the modern eye...
By Dr. Beryl Rawson Vale Professor Emerita Professor of Classics and Ancient History Australian National University The...
The Summerston distance stone from the Antonine Wall, which was found near Bearsden, was one artefact successfully...
The Roman Forum / Photo by DannyBoy7783, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lorena Atzeri / 11.20.2017 Akademie der...
Left: Tondo with the Bust of a Man, A.D. 300–400, Roman. Marble, 22 5/8 in. The J....
Roman coins were discovered in Katsuren castle in Uruma, Okinawa, southwestern Japan. EPA/Uruma City Education Board Is this...
Keeping your head up was tough in Roman times. Public domain During a 1988 excavation on London Wall 39 human...
Getting it on? Wikipedia Was a forged document responsible for the defeat of Mark Antony and the rise of Rome’s first emperor? By Dr. Eve MacDonald / 01.12.2017...
Giovanni Cavino, I primi dodici imperatori Romani (‘The first twelve Roman emperors’), plaquettes produced at Padua, c....
The Peutinger Table. Reproduction by Conradi Millieri – Ulrich Harsch Bibliotheca Augustana. Wikimedia Commons Today the phrase ‘all roads leads...
The Roman weekday ‘dies Veneris’ was named after the planet Venus, which in turn took its name...
Detail from the Roman-era Sousse Mosaic Calendar, El Jem, Tunisia. Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons Our lives run...
Being adopted by Julius Caesar didn’t do Augustus any harm. One swashbuckling charioteer earned the equivalent of US$15 billion....
To ancient Romans, the practice of sitting on a shared toilet in an open room full of...
The baths at Bath, England. Romans by Shutterstock The Romans are well known for introducing sanitation to much of their empire...
News in ancient Greece Greek and Roman historians were also known to fudge or fabricate their time in the...
By Dr. Mark D. Smith / 03.25.2018 Professor of History The College of Idaho Pontius Pilate, and...
The Justinian Mosaic / Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.21.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1...