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

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Acclaimed British author and ancient Rome nerd Elodie Harper has turned her attention to Boudicca and her daughters in her ...

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 ...

Pixelated Apollo spearheads siege-heavy engagements in Thera Total War Mod, delivers decisive battlefield tactics, unit ...

Spartacus: House of Ashur,” premiering Friday, sends the Starz Roman Empire saga in a surprising and violent new direction ...

What follows is strange. Troilus’s soul leaves his body, rising above the fields of death. From this vantage point he ...

The sarcophagus was found among abandoned houses in a quarter of Aquincum that had been vacated in the 3rd century and later repurposed as a burial ground. Nearby discoveries included a Roman aqueduct ...

There's a funny scene in "The Life of Brian," the controversial 1979 movie from the Monty Python chaps. Brian, a Jewish zealot, played by Graham Chapman, paints "Romans go home" on the walls of ...