The Roman Forum, known as Forum Romanum in Latin, was a site located at the center of the ancient city of Rome and the location of important religious, political and social activities. Historians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was the Roman Empire. Before it rose to imperial status in 27 BCE, the Roman civilization ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered an ancient city that the Roman army so thoroughly besieged that it was left uninhabited for nearly 200 years. Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology ...

The decline and fall of the Roman Republic has been a prominent theme of discussion for 2,000 years. The reasons given for its demise are practically as numerous as the years that have followed it.

The gladiator Spartacus escaped captivity from a gladiator training school, terrified ancient Rome’s elite with raids on plantations and raised a fighting force of 70,000 escaped slaves that ...

A Roman re-enactor posted a reel on Instagram that posed this challenge: “Ladies, many of you do not realize how often men think about the Roman Empire,” going on to urge women to ask their husbands, ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most interested in how ...

A proposed one dollar coin featuring US President Donald Trump is causing ructions across the political divide. It’s also provoking discussion in the world of ancient Roman numismatics (coin studies).

Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis Ford Coppola compares to modern-day America. The Roman Forum was a hub for ...

In almost every election, you hear someone say their vote didn't really matter because the outcome had already been decided. This would have been completely accurate for the Romans, who liked to ...

Pull a one-dollar bill from your wallet, look at the back, and you’ll find two circular images depicting the Great Seal of the United States. Here you’ll find “Annuit Coeptis” (He favors our ...