Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

Time and chance may erase all trace of even those who have been great in their day. And there were many opportunities for greatness, albeit fleeting, in the Roman empire of the third century AD.

All roads lead to Imperial Rome, says one bioarcheologist, and she may or may not be right. Remains of individual immigrants who had traveled to Rome thousands of years ago were unearthed in a ...

In today's issue of Current Biology, an international group of researchers has published some of the first direct DNA evidence of malaria in Imperial Italy. While the study did not find DNA of ...

The Great Illyrian Revolt, erupting under Emperor Augustus, was one of the most serious uprisings faced by Rome in the early ...

The Roman Empire was, at its peak, one of the richest and most extensive political structures in all of western civilisation. By 117AD it stretched from what is now Britain at its northern tip to ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

Isotope analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons buried in Imperial Rome reveal some were migrants from the Alps or North Africa, according to a new study . Isotope analysis of 2000-year-old skeletons ...