According to legend, long before the Romans founded Rome, there was a Greek city called Pallantium in the same area.

It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.

As glassblowing technologies were developed in present-day Syria in the 1st Century BC, glass objects became more prevalent in daily life. Paper was first made in China at the start of the 2nd ...

The first plays were performed with just one actor (called a protagonist) and a chorus of people who helped him to tell the story. However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to ...