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

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

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

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with imperial decline.

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