Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome! This expose briefly covers the rise and fall of Rome, including: ...

The social status and evolving rights of children in ancient Rome, from the absolute power of a father to early legal ...

Melbourne Museum is set to transport visitors back two millennia with Rome: Empire, Power, People, a major new exhibition ...

Elagabalus became Roman emperor at 14, was assassinated at 18, and managed to pack more scandal into those four years than ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.