Excavators uncovered a rare multi-story ancient Roman apartment building in Piazza Venezia, dating to the late Republic ...

The Roman Empire stretched across three continents, uniting vastly different peoples, climates, and economies under a single ...

For the first time, the Horrea Piperataria, the ancient spice warehouses of the emperors, was opened to the public. Built during the reign of Emperor Domitian in the 1st century CE, these ...

One of these imperial vacancies stretched for 20 months, a span longer than the entire reigns of more than 20 previous Roman emperors.

An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, “America is an empire in decline” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome. The piece, written by the co-author of a new book ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like ...

As silk fabrics became all the rage in imperial Rome, explorers and merchants opened up land and sea routes, fostering not only commerce but a robust exchange of wisdom and beliefs.

All Roads Lead to Rome: Exploring Human Migration to the Eternal City through Biochemistry of Skeletons from Two Imperial-Era Cemeteries (1st-3rd c AD). PLOS ONE, 2016; 11 (2): e0147585 DOI: 10. ...

DNA evidence from Roman Italy is still in its infancy as a field, even more so than bioarchaeology in Roman Italy, which itself is a small field and still fraught with issues of replicability.

Hundreds of gold coins dating from Rome's late Imperial era, the 4th or 5th century, were found Friday at a dig in Como, Italy, according to the Italian Ministry of Culture.