Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

Julius Caesar’s assassins had failed to solidify Rome’s Republic and prevent an autocracy. In Mary Beard’s book, she examines twenty-nine of ancient Rome’s emperors beginning with Julius ...

One depicts Julius Caesar, and there is also a rare example of a coin with Juba, king of Numidia (present-day Algeria), on it ...

Spectacle – shock and awe – is the name of the game in 2025 in Trumpian America, just as it was in imperial Rome ...

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

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

Calliope Limneos-Papakosta believes the tomb may be hidden beneath modern Alexandria's streets, at the intersection of ...

The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced ...

The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...