The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Through ancient readings and modern scholarly interpretations, students will meet the ancient Romans: emperors, soldiers, commoners, builders, writers and philosophers. A research project lets ...

Ms. Beard challenges this mythology of whiteness, arguing in her 2016 book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome that the story of the Roman Empire, which was necessarily ethnically diverse, is “the ...

In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for parchment or pottery shards, but beeswax. Specifically, you'd use a wooden tablet coated with a layer of wax. These wax tablets ...

Understanding what Latin sounded like provides valuable insights into Roman culture, literature, and communication, enriching our appreciation of this foundational language.

After the Barbarian sacks of Rome around 400-500 AD, which signalled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire amid widespread upheaval, the chestnut pollen percentage then drops temporarily.

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, ... As the Roman Empire spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, ...