Roman Empire News
Roman Road and Possible Parade-Ground Wall Found at a Welsh School
A seven-metre Roman road, a possible parade-ground wall and a culvert have emerged during building work at Caerleon Comprehensive School.
Roman Empire News
Wales Roman Villa Dig Finds Earlier Activity Beneath the Building
At Rossett, excavators found a quern beneath a North Wales villa, intact Roman floors and heating, and signs that its buildings changed over time.
Roman Empire News
Where Jane Austen was Dancing in Bath, Roman Artifacts Were Found Below the Ballroom
Roman ditches and a trove of finds beneath Bath Assembly Rooms extend the known footprint of Aquae Sulis, below a ballroom Jane Austen knew.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
The Roman World After the Last Emperor
The last western emperor was removed in AD 476, but Roman life did not end with him. Across the former empire, new rulers inherited Roman institutions, laws and communities, reshaping them in different ways.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Gratian: A Child on the Throne, a Soldier in the Making
Raised to the rank of Augustus at just eight years old, Gratian spent his reign trying to grow into the military and political role his father had prepared for him.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Did the Romans Really Massacre the Defenders of Maiden Castle?
Maiden Castle became famous as the scene of a supposed Roman massacre. Later archaeology has complicated that picture, revealing repeated episodes of violence and a much longer history behind the cemetery.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Magnus Maximus: The Roman Commander Who Rose from Britain to Rule the West
A Roman commander in Britain rose to imperial power in 383, ruled from Trier, challenged the western emperors, and later survived in Welsh tradition as Maxen Wledig.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The Great Conspiracy of 367: When Roman Britain Nearly Collapsed
In 367, Roman Britain faced a major military crisis as Picts, Scots and Attacotti raided the provinces, commanders were lost and soldiers deserted. Count Theodosius was sent to restore Roman control.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Emperor Theodosius I. The Man who Defined Christianity and also Massacred Thousands
Theodosius I inherited an empire shaken by Adrianople and ruled through Gothic settlement, civil war, religious conflict and dynastic change. His reign became surrounded by powerful later legends, but the surviving laws, letters and histories preserve a more complicated emperor.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Sidonius Apollinaris: A Life Told Through Letters
Sidonius Apollinaris lived through the passage from Roman to Visigothic Gaul. His letters preserve a world of villas, bishops, Gothic kings, Roman law, exile, and the fight to keep Latin culture alive.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
The Roman Hostage System
Rome’s hostage system turned royal sons, noble youths, and local elites into living pledges of loyalty, peace, and political control.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Catullus: The Roman Poet of All Life has to Give
Catullus wrote of love, betrayal, friendship, obscenity, politics, myth, and grief. His poems reveal a learned and fiercely personal voice shaped by the final years of the Roman Republic.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The Empire behind Rome: How Society Really Worked
Behind Rome’s marble monuments was a working society of families, slaves, soldiers, engineers, roads, food, baths, festivals, and daily systems.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Before the CIA: How Ancient Rome Built Its World of Spies and Informers
Rome had no modern intelligence agency, but its spies, scouts, informers, couriers, and imperial agents helped the state watch enemies, cities, provinces, and its own people.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Stilicho: The General Who Tried to Hold the West Together
Stilicho tried to hold together a Western Roman Empire already under immense pressure. His fall exposed how fragile the West had become.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The Mechanics of Civilization: Machines in the Greco-Roman World
From cranes and catapults to mills, pumps, and presses, the Greco-Roman world used machines in far more sophisticated and varied ways than older views once allowed.