The Romans are famous for their battles in the Colosseum, but how accurate are the scenes portrayed there in the new movie ...

One of the coins in the hoard was a gold aureus of Claudius, the very emperor who led the invasion of Britain. That connection made the find even more special. It's heavy and a beautiful coin, and has ...

In the 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius, Emperor Caligula greets his horse ... As the blaze leveled whole sections of Rome, Emperor Nero was supposedly watching from a palace tower. And he was playing ...

The discovery of the remains of a small town "reshapes" the understanding of Roman life in one part of eastern England, ...

Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis ...

The collection of 748 gold and silver coins is estimated to date from as early as 206 BC through to the Roman emperor ...

Ancient Roman gold and silver coins were found in 2019 by a metal detectorist in Suffolk. Years later, the coins made an ...

As always with films based in the past, pedantic historians will jump in to assess the degree of cinematic license and ...

In fact, once you’ve planted tomatillos or ground cherries, you will mostly likely have many volunteer plants for years to ...

Best figure in the classical world? I think Livia, the wife of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, has my vote. Everyone ...

A pair of metal-detector-discovered coin hoards have both sold for high figures at auction. The Helmingham Hoard made ...

One thing that certainly did not happen was a warrior mounted on a rhinoceros (even a non-computer-generated one) charging at ...