Nearly 2,000 years ago this was the line that divided the Roman Empire from the rest ... the prevailing view of the ancient frontier as a fixed barrier separating Rome from hordes of hostile ...

Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization that started around 800 BC and existed for approximately 1200 years. It started off in Rome, and grew into one of the largest and most powerful empires ...

According to Roman mythology, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BCE, by Romulus, a half-god who vanquished his twin brother Remus to become the city’s first king. What began as a small ...

The ancient Romans were great builders, especially known for their aqueducts. These are still standing today because they ...

We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans ... looking at the big picture. What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their aqueducts?

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.