A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ...

Excavators uncovered a rare multi-story ancient Roman apartment building in Piazza Venezia, dating to the late Republic period. Workers found the structure amid subway work.

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...

The cover of "My Roman History" by Alizah Holstein. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House) Author Alizah Holstein seemed destined to be a scholar of medieval Roman History. As a teen, she fell in love ...

Chemical analyses of an ancient river channel’s sediment at a Roman site in northern England have challenged a long-held view ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical action film Gladiator II has arrived, and as with the 2000 original starring ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...