Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

The year 476 AD is usually remembered as the moment when the Western Roman Empire finally collapsed. But what if the story almost turned out differently? After the deposition of the young emperor ...

Tim Penn received funding for some of the underlying research in this article from the Society of Antiquaries of London. He is the co-leader of Working Group 2 'Cultural Heritage of Games' for COST ...

(via SciShow) There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had a point ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire was not a single event but a chain reaction. Key battles such as Adrianople, the Frigidus River, the Catalonian Plains, and Cape Bon drained manpower, morale, and ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

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The anthropologist embarks on a journey by train visiting key sites of the Roman empire. Alice begins her Roman tour at Pompeii, where she explores ingenious Roman engineering, racy artworks, the role ...

This month's issue of Empire Magazine will put the spotlight on Amazon MGM Studios' Masters of the Universe reboot, and two awesome new covers have been revealed today, along with a couple of stills ...

Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the end of a lavish Roman lifestyle in Britain. But new radiocarbon dating of a finely crafted ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new movie called The Girl will revisit the notorious Roman Polanski sexual assault scandal from the perspective of victim Samantha Geimer. Based on Geimer’s memoir The Girl: A Life in the ...