The post Why the Roman Empire still captivates us appeared first on Salon.com. Two years ago, a viral trend tore through ...

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

Under an ordinary living room, a family home in northeastern France concealed an extraordinary secret: three buried jars ...

(JTA) — How often do men think about the Roman Empire? It’s a question that’s been hard to avoid lately, after a woman on TikTok asked it of her husband and he answered immediately: “Every day.” Since ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Michelle Yang. As a lover of all things media- and art-related, I have a lot of ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar lay dead from 23 knife wounds inflicted by his assassins. The next day, the question on every Roman citizen’s mind was: Who will rule Rome now? Getting to the ...

It has become fashionable to compare the United States’ current disarray to that of ancient Rome. The parallels are easy to make — both are powerful empires, nominally operating by the rule of the ...

A gaggle of Romans in Mel Brooks’s 1981 classic, “History of the World, Part 1” (Wikimedia Commons) When I lived in Philadelphia in my early 20s, my walk to work regularly took me past a statue of ...

Last year, the Roman Empire TikTok trend began to highlight a shockingly common obsession among men: Many revealed that they think about ancient Rome “at least once a day.” Today, the term “Roman ...