An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, gossip and relax. They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...

Ancient masters of engineering, aqueduct builders created a vast network of pipes, channels, and bridges to bring water to Rome, creating in the process an enduring symbol of Roman civilization ...

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 ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...

The earliest Roman armies emerged around the mid 6th century BC onwards, when Rome was just one Italian ... likely adopted the same equipment used by Ancient Greek hoplites. This took the form ...

Traditionally, Artaban was created in Ancient Rome using 24 herbs imported at great expense from ... de Villatte press and tells the story behind the fragrance. Writer and Wallpaper* Contributing ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...

To explain this, let's examine the 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolutions against each other. (Credit: Michael Justin Allen Sexton) A game rendered at 1080p is displayed with a resolution of 1,920 by ...