Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Rhetoric was a much-valued skill...
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Relief scene of Roman legionaries marching, from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE...
A marble relief panel from Smyrna showing Roman slaves in chains. 200 CE. (Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford, UK)...
The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (Wikimedia Commons) Ancient Rome featured a myriad of, what could...
The Julio Claudian Ravenna Releie / Creative Commons Descriptions of the diseases of some of these emperors...
This mosaic pavement dates to the first or second century ad and depicts a group of soldiers in...
Relief from the west side of the Ara Pacis in Rome / Wikimedia Commons Augustus was a...
Proclaiming Claudius Emperor by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1867 / Wikimedia Commons The Praetorian Guards were the personal bodyguards of...
Coriolanus Addressing the Plebeians, George Cruikshank One of the most fundamental characteristics of civilization is the rule of...
The newly found inscription provides invaluable information about the construction of the Roman thermae in the Ancient...
Roman bronze balance weights. Probably used by a goldsmith or chemist. Imperial period. (Archaeological Museum, Como, Italy) / Photo...
Large grain marble head believed to be a local (Mediolanum) copy of an official portrait of Roman emperor Claudius (41-54...
The view inside Pompeii’s old granary (Francesco Lastrucci) The famous archaeological treasure is falling into scandalous decline, even...
Ruins of the Roman Forum / Wikimedia Commons The early history of the Roman Republic was one...
A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii which was buried in...
Painting by Laurits Tuxen showing a Christian Bishop displacing an image of the pagan Slavic deities during...
A portion of the 2nd century BCE Basilica of the Roman town of Pompeii, the oldest surviving example of such...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
Location of the sunken island of Cyanida / Kianida on Ptolemy’s 9th European Map (Nona Europae Tabula)...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
Brothels in Pompeii were decorated with murals depicting erotic and exotic scenes: but the reality was far...
A fragment of a wall painting showing two lovers in bed from the House of L Caecilius...
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...