Roman Empire News
A soldier in a Velsen well left wounds, a worn dagger and clues in his teeth. Modern investigators have reopened his violent death.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Once in a lifetime, Rome celebrated the beginning of a new age. For three days and nights, extraordinary rituals and spectacles brought the city together in a festival unlike any other.
Roman Empire News
New Arctic evidence places renewed ice growth in Rome’s imperial age. The findings connect ancient snowlines, the Little Ice Age and modern warming; but scientists differ on when a glaciation begins.
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.
A reused stone at Fortuna’s Roman baths preserves oversized letters, part of a name and a possible clue to a monumental building project.
Buried money traces Rome’s growing reach; and the civilian activity that helped coins remain in use long after they left the mint.
They once ruled kingdoms and commanded armies. Then Rome paraded them before cheering crowds. But what awaited these captive rulers after their humiliation?
A new study links the skeleton in a Roman coffin to Westminster’s early medieval abbots, using radiocarbon dates, burial clues and the sarcophagus itself.
Four months of trials led to glass inspired by the Lycurgus Cup. The latest stage brings it into Elliot Walker’s sculpture for Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind.
An experienced commander took over after Commodus’s murder. His programme for Rome soon brought him into conflict with the men guarding the throne.
A hill of broken amphorae, a frontier across Britain and gold mines in Spain reveal the lasting ways Romans changed the landscape.
He was not an emperor, yet his wealth and influence rivalled those of Rome's rulers. How did Gaius Fulvius Plautianus rise so high, and what threatened his position?
Command legions, build cities and navigate imperial politics in our countdown of ten Roman video games, followed by two worlds with unmistakable Roman echoes.
Three camps east of Bayir trace a possible Roman expedition towards northern Arabia. A 2025 ground survey added pottery to the evidence first published in 2023.
He was one of Rome’s wealthiest and most influential aristocrats, admired for his generosity but accused of ruthless ambition. Petronius Probus left behind two very different reputations.
Aerial footage puts the Pantheon’s dome and oculus in view, revealing the geometry behind one of Rome’s best-preserved ancient buildings.
