Ancient Rome

What remembering Rome can teach us about men, women, history, and the present.

A hiker exploring in the eastern Galilee area of Israel found a rare 2,000-year-old gold coin.

The ancient Babylonians were the first to use sophisticated geometry – a staggering 1,400 years before it was previously thought to have been developed.

What appears to be an ancient Roman sword has been found off the East Coast of Canada, and it is just one of several indications that Romans were there around 200 A.D.

To tell Rome’s story in a way that is timely and comprehensible, one would need a guide like classicist Mary Beard—wise and incredibly daring.

Exhibition at the Canadian War Museum showcases a day in the life of a gladiator.

Mystery surrounds the most famous pair of lovers in ancient history.

People in ancient times had more advanced levels of scientific understanding than we commonly give them credit for.

The mysterious metal spoken of in ancient Greece, said to glimmer with a reddish light in Atlantis, may have been found.

Using x-rays, scientists have been able to look inside thousand-year-old scrolls from an ancient Roman library and could be able to read them soon.

A New Year’s resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in which a person makes a promise on New Year’s Eve to make certain changes or self-improvements in the year ahead. It is believed that the Babylonians were the first to make New Year’s resolutions around 4,000 years ago, and people all over the world have been breaking them ever since!