With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire, and ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a priestess Cool Finds The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity ...

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Credit: Stavros CC BY 2.0 Imagine the warriors of Greece’s Sparta, once the most feared soldiers in the ancient world, reduced to performing for crowds of Roman tourists. This isn’t fiction—it’s the ...

It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome. Now Bath was named after the Romans left. But there are plenty of towns ...

What if the structures in Europe, these megalithic tombs, the dolmens and the henge monuments are reconstructions of older monuments? US-Russia talks end in Saudi Arabia Surprising China news ...

The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, reported that the "Göbeklitepe: The Enigma of a Sacred Place" exhibition in Rome has attracted significant attention ... provides visitors with ...

There are 12 biographies in total, which cover the reigns of Julius Caesar and the 11 emperors who succeeded him. Holland describes the text as “ancient Rome’s Popbitch.” “It is full of scandal, and ...