During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...
A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...
In the hills north of Rome, an unlikely explorer has changed the way archaeologists understand one of the Roman Republic’s ...
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering ...
A massive volcanic eruption in Alaska in 43 B.C. may have contributed to the demise of the ancient Roman Republic, a new study has suggested. The research notes the Mount Okmok eruption spewed ...
A consensus in our fractured body politic is that democracy is in peril. Yet a 2021 poll found that 42 percent of Republicans viewed Democrats as a "serious threat" to democracy, while 41 percent of ...
In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of ...
Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...
The Roman Republic inspired many of the delegates who traveled to Philadelphia to design an effective federal government for the new United States in the summer of 1787. There was good reason for this ...
From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...
A smattering of journalists and political commentators mocked the president this week after he boasted accurately that the United States and Italy share a political heritage that can be traced all the ...