LAVISHLY frescoed rooms in the houses of the Roman Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia are opening for the first time to the public, after years of painstaking restoration.

Although not as entertaining as its predecessor, “Gladiator II” offers a window into one of the most puzzling and outrageous ...

1. The Augustus of Prima Porta The Augustus of Prima Porta statue is among the well-known artifacts from Ancient Rome. The marble statue depicts the first Roman emperor, Augustus, dressed in military ...

Sharks? Maybe not. But sea battles, semi-aquatic creatures and plenty of other eye-popping spectacles were part of the ...

Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...

Much like modern-day football hooliganism, gladiator fandom could be weaponised in intercommunal violence. In a 59BC ...

the author decided to terminate her work with the reign of Augustus, while broadening her field to include sites from all over Italy, as a background to developments in Rome. After a preliminary ...

Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger's roles as Geta and Caracalla in Gladiator 2 are based on real Roman Emperors.

The largest recorded naumachia came some years later. This reenactment of battle between the “Rhodians” and “Sicilians” was ...

The box office success of “Gladiator II” is a reminder that many Americans are obsessed with the Roman Empire. They've been ...