A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

The Roman Empire's enduring legacy has profoundly impacted modern politics, architecture, law, and culture. Yet, its origins ...

An office building from the 1930s in the heart of London was about to be demolished and redeveloped by its owners — until ...

First transmitted in 1960, Sir Mortimer Wheeler surveys some of the Roman Empire’s most impressive architectural feats and the artworks that characterised the period. Show more First transmitted ...

Despite Rome’s glorious architecture, only the richest citizens ... same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome that remains today is one of fabulous ...

Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their ... Vitruvius wrote ten books on architecture and he wrote about finding water. Some of his advice is obvious, like looking ...

Mussolini, for his part, used the Classical motif and identification with ancient Rome to frame his fascist regime as the rightful heir to the Roman Empire. Architecture was deployed to justify a ...