Ancient marble bust of Emperor Caracalla, 212-217. In the collections of the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of ...

The Roman Empire is one of the most famous empires in history, which at one point was basically the world's first superpower with how much of the world it encompassed. It has been a fascinating ...

There are very few people who know more about the history of ancient Rome than Mike Duncan. The creator and host of the tremendously popular History of Rome podcast, which first aired between 2007 and ...

Despite extensive records of the history of Rome, little is known about the city's population over time. A new genetic history of the Eternal City reveals a dynamic population shaped in part by ...

Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...

Rome is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. Three thousand years or so of history take us down beneath the modern streets, past Mussolini’s imperial city, on through the ...

Rome is the only city where you can travel over 2,000 years of history on your way to lunch, and nobody acts impressed. Ancient engineers, rival nations, secret keyholes, and daily coin tosses all ...

Beginning in the Renaissance, locals affixed verses protesting various societal ills to six sculptures scattered across the Italian city Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent A grand tour of Rome’s ...

Heritage Daily reports on how Archaeologists from the Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța (MINAC) carried out preventive excavations at a municipal hospital site, an area legally ...