With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...
An integral part of daily life in ancient ... symbol of Rome itself. To Romans, the baths proved that they were cleaner – and therefore better – than inhabitants of other countries. As the ...
Local 25-year-old visitor Wang Yongqiang from Taiyuan had visited the exhibition for the third time, stating, "I applied to ...
“It turned out to be a Roman triumphal ... at the center of Rome’s imperial project. Empires and roads have always gone hand in hand. Centuries before the Romans, the ancient Persians relied ...
The aureus, the gold coin currency used in ancient Rome, was issued by Brutus and his friends a year or two after they assassinated Roman ruler ... with warlike symbols. It is one of only 17 ...
If the frenzy around the release of ‘Gladiator II’ was anything to go by, our obsession with the Roman Empire is a long way ...