Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic family in around 100 BC, Julius Caesar grew up in dangerous times. Rome could ...

The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...

Spectacle – shock and awe – is the name of the game in 2025 in Trumpian America, just as it was in imperial Rome ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...

The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Two metal detectorists in the Netherlands have found a hoard of first-century gold and silver coins. The rare mix of Roman ...

His main work, “Lives of the Caesars,” gave a vivid picture of Rome from the time of Julius Caesar to the Emperor Domitian. In this book, Suetonius organized his biographies not by person ...