Excavations at Gabii, 11 miles east of Rome, are offering archaeologists a chance to understand how Romans built in the 3rd ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most interested in how ...

Over the past two decades, excavations at Laodicea, the Roman provincial capital of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey, have produced some remarkable finds. These have included frescoed travertine walls, a ...

How do prosperous, seemingly stable governments fall into authoritarianism? With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on Monday, we contemplate the impact his administration could have on our ...

It’s also provoking discussion in the world of ancient Roman numismatics (coin ... the depiction of living figures on Roman ...

Italian archaeologists recently gained rare insight into life during Ancient Rome when they found a multi-story apartment building built decades before the birth of Jesus Christ. The discovery was ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The artifact came to light during excavations conducted in 2022 at the biblical ...