Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...
Ancient Rome didn’t just conquer territory — it engineered dominance. Its roads stretched hundreds of thousands of miles and still shape Europe today. Aqueducts delivered millions of gallons of water ...
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The Via Egnatia was an ancient Roman road that ran from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium, connecting northern ancient Greek ...
The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?
Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...
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Baiae once served as the ultimate escape for Rome’s wealthiest citizens, a coastal retreat where politics faded into the ...