The tunnel connected the emperor's box, positioned prominently on the south side of the Colosseum, to the amphitheater’s exterior. This strategic design allowed the ruler to enter and exit without ...

Every March 15, the dark history behind the 74th day in the Roman calendar has led many to think of bad omens and doom, but the day has a deep history and purpose. The date has been used in a variety ...

A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce when depicting the past. To address this, scholars in classical studies have ...

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There are very few people who know more about the history of ancient Rome than Mike Duncan. The creator and host of the tremendously popular History of Rome podcast, which first aired between 2007 and ...

An ancient prison that once held enemies of the Roman state sits at the base of the Capitoline Hill, largely unchanged since it was first built. The Carcer as it appears today, stripped of most of the ...

While many people choose to give up social media for Lent, one Catholic man is uploading new videos online every day to share the stories of the early Christian martyrs and Rome’s most ancient ...