There is mounting evidence that after the Romans left Britain, the region's economy didn't suffer as badly as once thought.

Many ancient records detail Romans’ use of brown bears in entertainment, according to Antiquity. They were apparently trained ...

The recent archaeological campaigns in Segesta (Sicily), led by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa under the scientific ...

Take a trip to ancient Rome, where slaves and pirates and ladies of the night weave a web of hilarity at Eastern Oregon ...

HBO and the BBC’s Rome debuted in 2005 with aspirations to be one of the most accurate depictions of the The post ‘If We Lose ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient bathhouse underwater in Naples, Italy, that may have belonged to Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rome's famous orator and philosopher.

In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early medieval cemeteries, and found two individuals that ...

It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some ...

The problem at issue in Marx's reflections on variations between pre-bourgeois forms of communal ownership (Indian, Slavonic, ...

One of the famous brothels in ancient Pompeii was called the Lupanare (Latin for wolf’s den). Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this was a two-story building built just years before the destruction of ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...