Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

The era of the Roman Empire was one of the most prosperous periods, the remnants of which were spread across the world.

In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman ...

April Fools Day originated in the Middle Ages with authors using parables and animal creatures to trick people, and has since ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than ...

The rise of the Roman Empire was crucial to the wine industry. They refined production by using barrels and cultivation techniques that allowed them to make more for less cost. Romans believed ...