Jamie Gianoutsos’s lively history shows how ancient arguments about virtue and tyranny still haunt modern politics, from ...

The video compares the Roman Republic and Empire with the United States across religion, architecture, military strength, ...

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 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 ...

The Roman world lasted 2,000 years, transforming from a kingdom to a republic and finally to an empire. At 250, what can the United States, which has been ...

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.

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 ...

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 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, ...

A consensus in our fractured body politic is that democracy is in peril. Yet a 2021 poll found that 42 percent of Republicans viewed Democrats as a "serious threat" to democracy, while 41 percent of ...