Roman Empire News
Command legions, build cities and navigate imperial politics in our countdown of ten Roman video games, followed by two worlds with unmistakable Roman echoes.
Roman Empire News
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.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
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.
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.
Aerial footage puts the Pantheon’s dome and oculus in view, revealing the geometry behind one of Rome’s best-preserved ancient buildings.
A community excavation at Trosley exposed painted rooms and a surviving hypocaust. Records from 2022, 2023 and 2026 trace the villa’s investigation.
A study of 243 ancient individuals finds that Mediterranean ancestry formed under Roman rule persisted through later migrations, with family ties traced across Hispania.
A sanctuary at Cova Dones may hold the Roman Empire’s largest known collection of Latin cave inscriptions, with women’s names and vows to a goddess.
He loved philosophy more than power, yet became one of Rome's most unusual emperors. Julian's ambitions would put him at odds with the world around him.
A fourteen-minute bidding contest set a Roman antiquity record. Younger participants joined the wider sale, while the torso’s imperial identity remains debated.
Buildings, objects and ancient texts show ten Roman practices with close parallels in everyday life, from busy streets to shared places of leisure.
Family ties, imperial daughters and influential mothers give these ten Roman names their ancient histories, from Augustus’s household to the Antonine court.
A Fox News claim blames Rome’s fall on women choosing careers over babies. Roman demographic research and evidence of working mothers tell a different story.
An international team has reconstructed an Inveresk resident’s face, while his bones and teeth document a journey north and a life shaped by injury.
A new interview about Agrippa brings Rome’s passage to one-man rule into the present, as the Conclave novelist warns about broken political rules.
On 28 October AD 312, Constantine confronted Maxentius outside Rome in a battle that ended with a disastrous retreat toward the Tiber. Ancient accounts describe fierce fighting, broken bridges and the drowning of an emperor, but disagree over how the final moments unfolded.
