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

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

Though similar aqueducts have been unearthed at ancient Roman military camps in Austria’s Vienna and Mautern, nothing of the sort has been found in Slovakia before, says research leader Erik ...