The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Ancient Roman architecture is seen as a part of classical architecture and generally builds off of the three classical orders—Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric—which were developed in ancient Greece. Later ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...

Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago. Today, the bare shell of what was one of Rome’s ...

Newly published research is providing a fascinating glimpse into how ancient Romans enjoyed their fast food — shedding more light on life in antiquity. In a recent journal article entitled "Urban ...

What did the Romans really think about race, identity, and belonging? This episode of the Kings and Generals animated documentary dives into Roman views of ethnicity, citizenship, and imperial ...

Although dedicating much of the treatise to construction and materials, book VIII is about water: how to capture and store water and the architectural constructions that serve this purpose. Water was ...