Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

When archeologists arrived to monitor the construction of a new boathouse in the Swiss city of Kaiseraugst, they expected to find ruins of a Roman quarry. Instead, the December 2021 construction ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

It’s astounding the things they leave lying around in Greece. Our ship has docked in ­Lavrio, southeast of Athens, and I’ve ...

44 BC: The Ides Of March (Killers, 1981) A pivotal event in the history of the Roman Empire, the assassination of Julius Caesar occurred on March 15, “ides” referring to the middle days of a month in ...

After her death, the Roman Empire took control of the country ... The Greek queen of Egypt stayed in Rome until Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, after which she returned to Egypt. Shortly after her ...

Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC). Right ... now fragmented parts of Alexander the Great’s empire.

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

Inside the super-private Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles, and the strategy to clean them up and bring them back into ...

when it would have been demolished and replaced by a much larger second forum, reflecting the rapid growth and importance of Londinium in the Roman Empire.

How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about ... Sulla, by the way, was the notorious first-century BC dictator who had hundreds of his political opponents ...