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 ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

City architects in ancient Rome called for narrowing streets ... can also help lower the temperature. If you wear a black shirt in the Sun on a hot day, you’ll heat up more than if you wear a white ...

In his sun-flooded living room in Rome, he pulls his illustrated history of the column off a crowded bookshelf. “The column is an amazing work,” he says, leafing through black-and-white photos ...

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 ...

But buying pre-ground pepper and sprinkling it on your eggs is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this ancient ...

Using Rome as his case study, he explores how the city was transformed ... The advent of fascist state in the 1920s ushered in a different order of ideological placemaking. The monuments of ancient ...

Ancient Roman cookbooks contain some of the earliest recipes ... bound together by honey, vinegar, olive oil, and white wine. With its creamy sweetbreads, ostensibly tender chicken, soft bread, and ...

Tombs dating back to the ancient Roman era have been opened to the public for the first time after a meticulous restoration process, according to an announcement from the Israel Antiquities Authority.

There were 27 of them, each characterized as a denarius — the main silver coin used in ancient Rome for several centuries after its introduction around 200 B.C. The team, led by Thomas Schäfer ...

Demonstrating the hallmark skin folds of other mastiffs, the Neapolitan mastiff originated in ancient Rome and remains ... Akita’s typically have red and white or black and white coats.

Lightning has struck Rome's Constantine Arch near the Colosseum during a violent thunderstorm, loosening fragments from the ...