Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways, even modern. Marriage in Roman times was often not at all romantic. Rather, it was an agreement between ...

The video examines the public libraries of ancient Rome, including their role as cultural hubs with reading rooms, statues ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of ...

When French archaeologists first began digging into the baked earth of their new colonial empire in Algeria in the mid-19th century, they fancied that they'd found kindred spirits in the Roman Empire ...

It's no easy feat to build a roadway let alone a highway system — especially one that stretches across a continent. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were the 190,000 miles of roads that once ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

The Lycurgus Cup is an iconic artifact from Roman times. After 1,600 years, the technical mastery behind this masterpiece has ...

Ancient Roman glassmakers achieved a remarkable optical effect that modern scientists have struggled to reproduce.