From the fall of Rome to the rise of Christianity, Tom Holland's books offer a modern lens on ancient history. Here, we rank ...

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

1. Caecilia – Blind 2. Cassius – Empty, or vain 3. Claudia – Lame, or limping 4. Cornelia – Horn 5. Crispin – Curly-haired 6.

In 286 AD, Ancient Rome was split into two parts: the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. The Western Roman Empire had already fallen by the time this climatic shift began around 540 CE.