Ancient Rome refers to a city that became the center of an empire that flourished for roughly 600 years. During that time, the empire would grow to stretch from northern England to the Middle East ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...

From amazing frescoes and reconstructions of papal crypts to early writing artifacts, here's a look at Rome through the eyes of 19th-century scholars.

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city-state of Rome, founded on the Italian peninsula around 800 BC. During its twelve-century existence, the Roman civilization shifted from a ...

Ancient Romans didn’t measure time in our 60-minute hours; instead, they divided daylight and darkness into 12 increments each, a system they adopted from the Egyptians.In Rome, that meant an ...

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Ancient Rome lasted 1,000 years, from 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. It grew for 500 years, ... Some of the early Christians buried here had been killed for their faith.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a person from the 'year 0' while excavating an early ancient Roman settlement in the Netherlands. The 2,000-year-old grave, which belonged to a ...

Even at that early stage, the newly-revealed ancient manuscripts demonstrate that London was a major commercial and financial centre. Around 50 per cent of those documents, where the subject ...

When it comes to ancient education and literacy, the consensus is that most people in the ancient Roman world were illiterate. Those who could read and write were wealthy elites; it was only ...

Added separately, in the early 1500s, were the bronze figures of Romulus and Remus, ... Mussolini used the image in his regime's propaganda pushing for a return to ancient Roman glories.