From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...

The ancient Romans are credited with building road networks, but a new digital atlas shows these stretched 50 per cent longer than previously estimated. The research published recently is a new update ...

Here are 22 facts about ancient Rome that'll keep you occupied the next time you're thinking about it: 1.Rome wasn't built in a day. Like any epic, the city boasts dramatic origins, starting when the ...

Roman Reigns is arguably the most polarizing act in the history of professional wrestling. His singles run as a babyface from 2014 until 2020 was major in terms of his strong positioning and booking, ...

We tend to think about people in the past as more prudish and strict about sex and gender. But really people have been experimenting with sex and gender for as long as humans have existed. In the ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

But all has been changed. For half a century, learned men have been busily employed in pulling down the edifice of Roman history, until they have unsettled everybody’s faith in that history. No one ...

This Roman battle tactic stands as one of their greatest failures, remembered for its lack of foresight and disastrous ...