Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

You'd expect to find a rare ancient Roman helmet in Rome, but where this one was found reveals just how far the Roman Empire fought from home.

After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first imperial dynasty, the consuls ...

The Ancient Appian Way (Via Appia Antica ... execution (in 71 B.C.), the tomb of Caecilia Metella, and many a Roman military march. These days, it stretches for 38.5 miles, though several ...

Time for the Romans was divided differently, with the Kalends, the Ides at the start and middle of each month, respectively, and the Nones sitting between them. With the intention of maintaining and ...

Perseus of Macedon was the last Greek king of ancient Greece before it came under Roman rule following defeat in the Battle ...

Etruscan civilization predated the Roman Empire by hundreds of years, and as such, the Romans were influenced by many ...