Roman Empire Historical Facts
A daughter’s marriage, a city’s treaty and a mother’s legal papers reveal how provincial people used different traditions within Roman imperial authority.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Bulls, banquets and one unfortunate goose reveal how Roman emperors turned animal sacrifice into a public language of power, generosity and loyalty.
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Your gladiators do the fighting; you handle the roster, recovery and bills. A new Roman management game has launched, and its first updates are already reshaping the season.
Roman justice was never equal. From trials in the forum to brutal punishments like crucifixion and exile, the law upheld social order through fear and spectacle. This article explores how crime and punishment shaped power in the empire.
A boy-emperor draped in silk and scandal, Elagabalus shook the Roman world with rituals, rumors, and rebellion. His brief reign remains one of the Empire’s most controversial and enigmatic chapters.
Salt and salary are often linked to Roman soldiers, but historical records reveal a different understanding of military pay in ancient Rome.
The Roman passion for red mullet drove them to pay fortunes to have this delicacy on their tables.
As the Severan dynasty rose to prominence, the two brothers were groomed to jointly inherit their father’s empire. Despite their shared upbringing, their differences—both personal and political—were stark and irreconcilable.
Anecdotes, historical facts, fictional stories and news curated from a small team of human writers, fascinated with Ancient Rome and its myriad myths and legends.
He treated patients with electric fish, collected unusual remedies, and believed every physician had a duty to help. Scribonius Largus left behind a remarkable account of medicine in ancient Rome.
Codename Mars could take Assassin’s Creed to ancient Rome, while Hexe reportedly slips towards 2028. We sort the exciting rumour from Ubisoft’s confirmed plans.
He came from the edge of the Roman world and rose through war to become one of Trajan’s most formidable commanders. Lusius Quietus seemed unstoppable, until power changed hands in Rome.
A September radar survey at Martinsicuro covered five areas of ancient Truentum. The data are being processed as the municipality considers a future archaeological park.
Two late Roman laws expose the pressures behind animal spectacles: protected supplies of lions, costly military convoys and penalties for overstaying in cities.
Hot baths, masked helmets and a sun god with possible special effects: Scotland’s Roman finds reveal an army with expensive tastes and an awkward habit of leaving.
Salona’s latest excavations uncovered 32 graves, including a face-down burial with varied glass vessels and a clue to the cemetery’s earlier walls.
A newly published inscription from Turkey preserves advice on travel, illness and trade, selected by casting five animal knucklebones.
Tweezers, a glass scent bottle and childhood charms survived in a Pompeii cupboard, alongside 38 bronze coins and a small box of lead weights.
A nearly naked theft search, forbidden dormice and a funeral exception for gold-bound teeth: twenty rules reveal the reach of Roman law.
Wall fragments from a villa at Torre di Pordenone reveal how Roman decorators mixed Egyptian blue into lime plaster to create a pale backdrop for fish and other marine life.
A soldier in a Velsen well left wounds, a worn dagger and clues in his teeth. Modern investigators have reopened his violent death.
