Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy ... things that they’ve dropped and left behind: shoes, writing tablets, little bits of weapons and armour and like a ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Although he preferred order to chaos, Virgil’s writing showed he knew there were ... with the complex relations at the heart of the Roman Empire. Virgil worked on “The Aeneid” for the ...

Because he was writing about dead emperors who belonged ... and Suetonius still form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.

As the name implies, each episode of roughly an hour covers a historical topic in brief, everything from the history and uses of English castles to the Industrial Revolution. The first one I listened ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire ...