To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle ... supports the animal’s presence in the ancient amphitheater.) Aquatic apex predators ...

In the ruins of Rome’s opulent Domus Aurea palace, archaeologists have uncovered an array of ancient pigments used by ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

One such unusual tax was introduced in 1696 by King William III of England and Wales, which levied a tax on windows. People had to pay tax based on the number of windows in their homes.

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the second century CE ...

It was the year 160 AD when Appius Annius Atilius Bradua filed a complaint before the Roman Senate regarding the murder of ...

Emperor Titus, opened the elaborate structure, called the Flavian Amphitheater, with 100 days of games. The Colosseum was the largest of its kind in the world, and the first to be built free-standing ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...

Archaeologists have struck actual gold in the village of Holztem in Parc Hosingen, Luxembourg—unearthing a trove of 141 ancient Roman ... the effigies of nine Roman emperors whose collective ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...