The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest stands as one of the most devastating defeats in Roman military history. What began as a ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman ...

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s ...

Over the centuries, it has attracted important figures, St. Catherine of Siena and the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, both ...

Beginning in the Renaissance, locals affixed verses protesting various societal ills to six sculptures scattered across the Italian city Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent A grand tour of Rome’s ...

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...

Ancient marble bust of Emperor Caracalla, 212-217. In the collections of the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of ...

From the Republic to the Empire, civitas—full Roman citizenship—was prized by those who had it and coveted by those who did not. A denarius from from the late second-century B.C. shows Roman citizens ...

“The prolonged and extreme drought seems to have occurred during a particularly poor period for Roman Britain,” Andreas ...