When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

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 ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... well as the reach, of ancient Rome. He has created a ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse ... Launaro's team found evidence to support a different timeline. After analyzing the pottery they ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome ... can draw a direct line between Rome’s high tariffs and the decline of the Roman Empire, but it’s certainly true ...

HarperCollins, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-00-870042-3 More than any other ancient civilization, the Roman Empire continues to ... argues that Rome is the main source of today’s political ideas ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain 'first hand' evidence about the life and death of Jesus Christ. The Annals, written by the Roman historian ...

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of historians, archaeologists, and lovers of ancient ... the Han Empire ...