The Roman Empire has given speculative fiction authors plenty of fodder for alternate history tales. There are dozens of stories in which the fall of Rome is delayed or prevented, and technology ...

Class struggle isn’t a modern invention — it’s been with us for thousands of years. Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at ...

The history of those years is steeped in bloodshed, intrigue and sexual diplomacy. In “The War That Made the Roman Empire,” Barry Strauss relates the story fairly and fluently—in ways that ...

Propaganda is considered to be a modern political art, but the Romans were masters of 'spin'. How did Rome's leaders communicate their power and their policies to a massive and diverse empire? All ...

The Roman Empire set up and spread many of the structures on which the civilisation of modern Europe depends; and through history it provided a continuous model to imitate.

An Alternate-History Channel on Reddit Is Gaming Out a Shockingly Realistic Second US Civil War The (fictional) Second Battle of Harper's Ferry, ca. April 2025. (Reddit User GeorgeSquarshington) ...

Hadrian’s Wall in modern-day England marked one of the northern borders of the Roman Empire. But excavations along the wall are bringing to light a hidden history of the army and the Roman ...

There seems to be a new fascination with the Roman Empire these days. On TikTok, a trend has emerged where users ask their boyfriends, fathers, brothers and other men how often they think about ...

That video highlights the unspoken truth of this phenomenon: Modern men consider the Roman Empire a shining paragon of masculinity. Unfortunately for them, that sentiment is far from the truth.