A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...
Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...
The semicircular room stretched about 100 feet across and originally stood several stories tall with elaborate decorations.
Local inhabitants obeyed Roman rule because the alternative was often too horrible to consider. Even when the Romans were behaving themselves, the very size and wealth of their empire ensured that ...