An ancient tomb that has been linked to Rome's legendary founder ... Fabled characters Romulus and Remus were said to have been the twin sons of the god Mars and priestess Rhea Silvia.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Professor Mary Beard One of the world’s foremost classicists, Mary Beard has written a number of fantastic books on Roman history. SPQR (which references the ...
You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...
Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...
New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...
Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicating the charisma of ...
Ridley Scott's long-anticipated return to ancient Rome is a pale shadow of its Best Picture-winning predecessor.
The advent of fascist state in the 1920s ushered in a different order of ideological placemaking. The monuments of ancient Roman were isolated in order to enhance their structural elegance, a scheme ...
You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...