The bread-and-circuses approach to public policy has never been more ambitiously or outrageously memorialized than by the eternal centerpiece of the Eternal City—the subject of “Colosseum,” the ...

Tapping into the current epic battle craze, The History Channel is launching a “Great Battles of Rome” vidgame, its first international console game, which will hit European outlets in May. Comprising ...

As Sky HISTORY series Britain’s Lost Battlefields attempts to find where Boudica fell, we ask what provoked the Iceni queen’s ...

Eight Days that Made Rome, a new series about the Roman Empire hosted by Bettany Hughes, is slated to premiere on Smithsonian Channel in the new year. An award-winning historian, author and ...

A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the Roman ...

(CNN) — A party invitation. A broken flipflop. A wig. Letters of complaint about road conditions, and an urgent request for more beer. It sounds like the aftermath of a successful spring break, but ...

ROME — Italian archaeologists are hailing a recent discovery as the "most exceptional" in the last half-century. They believe it could rewrite the history of the relationship between the Etruscan and ...