Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Roman gladiator’s tomb in ancient Liternum shedding light on burial customs and daily life in ...

To obtain a pure zero-gravity sample, Trajan recently sent its blood microsampling kit into space with a crew of astronauts.

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

or the “Roman Peace,” a nearly two-century-long era of relative peace and prosperity. Augustus implemented countless social reforms, bolstered the arts, and strengthened Rome’s infrastructure. Later ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any ... destroyed by Rome as a punishment for London supporting the rogue emperor Carausius.

Situated near the Roman Agora in Athens, along the Panathenaic Way, which housed mostly scrolls was built during the reign of Emperor Trajan, and reflects the Roman patronage of Greek culture. The ...

This trio came back together in the 1870s as a recently-formed Germany, the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, and Russia formed the League of the Three Emperors. This alliance had some of the same ...

The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own. Aurelius ...