A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how, under the influence of the first emperors, Rome rapidly developed into one of the greatest capitals of the ancient ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City Police Department has launched an interactive crime map that gives community members access to crime data across the city and from a few other locations. In a press ...

HarperCollins, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-00-870042-3 More than any other ancient civilization ... in his English-language debut, argues that Rome is the main source of today’s political ideas ...

Roman Empire city builder Citadelum just got a lot bigger with a substantive overhaul from developer Abylight. The historical strategy game has launched its 2.0 ‘Julius’ update, a big, free ...

In 286 AD, Ancient Rome was split into two parts: the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. The Western Roman Empire had already fallen by the time this climatic shift began around 540 CE.

An interactive map showing voter turnout can be found below. Not loading correctly? View the map here. Higher turnout in these areas may have played a role in McCann and Aguirre’s breakaway from ...

While the extent to which the climate contributed to events such as the fall of Rome remains debated, there is growing evidence that climate changes shaped the fate of many civilisations.

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery highlights the prevalence of ritual sacrifice in antiquity. The excavation ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar. In fact, tariffs were also used in Ancient Rome, and for some of the reasons that governments ...

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...

Although architectural recycling was common practice throughout antiquity, many of the spolia churches date from centuries after the heyday of Ancient Rome, when the city’s population was ...