The Roman Salute. Instead, the hand motion like that used by Musk was popularized in 19th-century books, toga plays and, later, early 20th-century films as a fictional fixture of ancient Rome, the ...

IN matters relating to sex, the ancient Romans displayed the practical ... has explored the records of the reactions of the Roman world in marriage, in religion, in literature and in art, and ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

in turn pointed to Musk’s enthusiasm for ancient Rome. This was not a fascist gesture, they insisted, but a “Roman salute.” Several posted scenes from the 2005-07 TV series Rome, which ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives ... Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active ...

was discovered during the ongoing excavation of the ancient port city of Ostia. It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of antiquity, 16 miles from Rome. “This is an ...

“The lesson of the Roman Forum” is that everything “is more delicate than we can imagine”. The Ancient historian Polybius, as he charts the 53 years it took for Rome to become a dominant ...

Roman Bath." We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans' sophisticated water distribution system, including its elegant aqueducts. Here's what he told us ...