The rise and fall of the publicani of the Roman Empire offers valuable lessons on scalability, adaptability, financial ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Ancient thought had a tendency to view history ... of a strong leader to reset Rome’s course. Generations of Roman leaders found political weaponry in this fear of degeneration.

At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria ... And in the first century BCE, Roman leader Julius Caesar gave his lover, Servilia (mother to his murderer Marcus Brutus), an imported black ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have ...

The renowned English playwright, William Shakespeare, wrote “Julius Caesar,” a stage play that depicted the rise of Julius ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s Berenice II ... garlands and ribbons. Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration.

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, is a “gallery of emperors” featuring Rome’s imperial leaders and their family members. “Myth and Marble” spotlights several large ...