With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...
Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...
Gambling, one of the most common vices in the world, has a long history that dates all the way back to Ancient Greece.
The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...
What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...
In a recent New Yorker profile, the tech mogul revealed that his fascination with the ancient Roman emperor Augustus even figured into his 2012 honeymoon in Rome. "My wife was making fun of me ...
Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a trove of 141 ancient Roman coins worth more than €300,000 ($310,000).