Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

Myf Warhurst, voiceover： Thousands of years ago, on the continent of Europe, people lived their everyday lives in one of the ...

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her: I ...

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...

(The Conversation) — There may have been fear of gender-diverse people in the ancient world, but they played a crucial role. In Rome, they were viewed as vital to the city’s safety. (The Conversation) ...

Communities sharing similar burial customs were not always organized in the same way.

The ancient Romans were different from us modern humans in many ways. They would watch gladiators fight to the death as entertainment, for example, and they used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste.

But did you know that there were once ancient civilisations all around the world that have influenced our modern life？ An ...