The obscene graffiti directed against Caracalla and Geta in Gladiator II then is part of a long tradition of political ...

Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture ... Some have argued that the fall of the Western empire has been overstated. As historian Edward J. Watts points out in The Eternal Decline and ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University’s Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology have produced the first objective, ...

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

Excavators first unearthed the barracks in the late 1700s. Among the ruins they found a bronze helmet, with a circular brim, ...

Dr. Racette-Campbell, a classics professor at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of “The Crisis of Masculinity in the ...

Here is no story of ineluctable Decline and Fall in the manner of Edward Gibbon, still less of the triumphant absorption of a pagan city by the popes of Rome. Instead, the Roman Senate and its members ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...