Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

the volcano that extinguished the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 C.E. Recently, these excavations revealed a structure ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

Augustus’ record should matter especially ... deep hunger that's driving many Americans to sanctify Trump, as ancient Romans sanctified their emperors — and as Trump has sought to sanctify ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four) became legally ...

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... their deaths and the family of Augustus traced their roots back to ...

Built in 19 B.C. to a plan by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the boom in hydrology projects ordered by Augustus, its survival to the present day is a remarkable example of how ancient ...