Old Jewish 'Purification' Bath Found While Digging a Roman City; 'Oldest Discovery of Its Kind in the World' Ancient ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

The ancient Romans lived in smelly cities. We know this from archaeological evidence found at the best-preserved sites of Roman Italy — Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia and Rome — as well as from ...

Duncan also noted, though, that the image of the Roman Empire portrayed in popular culture isn't a reflection of most people who lived during the time. "A lot of the people who try to romanticize ...

The first, the conquest by Alexander, which brought Greek culture to the middle eastern territories. And then, subsequent to that, the Roman imperial expansion, which would take that over politically.

Today, we can still visit some of the best Roman ruins in Rome, but the empire stretched far and wide across Europe. While these master empire-builders were busy conquering everything in sight ...

Roman culture has influenced artists and writers across the centuries, including William Shakespeare who write several 'Roman plays' - including Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra.

Herod carefully cultivated his image as a sophisticate steeped in Greco-Roman culture. If the writers of the New Testament saw him as a tyrant, Herod saw himself as the paragon of refinement.

We find many mosaics on the floors of ancient Roman buildings. They often show scenes from well-known stories, or even just pictures from everyday life at the time…and if I’m not mistaken ...