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, ...

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 ...

“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” It's a question that became a viral trend back in 2023. Thanks to a Swedish influencer who curiously asked her followers to find out. Women all over ...

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 ...

A 2,200-year-old Roman Republic-era shipwreck off Croatia has revealed unprecedented details about ancient maritime ...

The end of Rome supposedly came as suddenly as thunder, relative to history’s long arc. The legions withdraw from their ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

Like its predecessor, “Gladiator II” is inspired by history. That doesn’t mean it’s bound by actual historical facts, however. Now in theaters, Ridley Scott’s follow-up to his 2000 epic “Gladiator” ...