The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

From the fall of Rome to the rise of Christianity, Tom Holland's books offer a modern lens on ancient history. Here, we rank ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... What that means is, a temple for the Emperor Tiberius, as part of the Imperial Cult. Thus, here we have, at Caesarea Maritima, a Roman ...

Good old Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) in his Early History of Rome, Vol. I, tells us that “the study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind” and ...

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...