While repairing a sewer along Rome's ancient Appian Way, workers came across an incredible discovery: an ancient marble ...

Sandals, masks, and other archaeological artifacts ... the goddess of wisdom. As Roman power and territory expanded, the Romans added gods and goddesses from vastly different cultures, including ...

Like the masks that had covered the faces of ... presence intensified under Octavian—soon to become Emperor Augustus—made Egypt a Roman province following the death of Cleopatra, the last ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants doing his bidding would be seductive. But in fact, Roman emperors ...

What Was a Roman Emperor’s Daily Life Like?' Classicist and author Mary Beard sits down with Tristan Hughes in this filmed podcast for the The Ancients podcast to discuss the role of the Roman ...

There were over 80 emperors of the Roman Empire, but how much do you know about these all-powerful rulers?. | Credit: piola666/Getty Images The Roman emperors held vast wealth and control in the ...

According to Mary Beard, classicist and author of Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, most of that time would have been spent in transit to Rome from present-day York, U.K., where ...

Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537 A.D., its circular dome covers what was for a thousand years the largest indoor space in the world. It remains architecturally ...

For nearly half a century, Ursula's Costumes in Los Angeles transformed customers into everything from clowns to Roman emperors and ... The shop's walls are covered in masks and wigs, animal ...

This site continues to yield astonishing insights into ancient Roman life, with the latest discovery ... pointed out a ceiling fresco depicting theatrical masks and Egyptian characters ...