From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...

The ancient Romans had very different ideas about sex and gender to us, meaning they had lots of practices that you might find shocking. You might think modern conceptions and norms around sex and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here are 22 facts about ancient Rome that'll keep you occupied the next time you're thinking about it: 1.Rome wasn't built in a ...

PEOPLE of the last century had a very easy time with their Roman history, and any gentleman could pick up enough of it “in course of his morning’s reading” to answer the demands of a lifetime. Men ...

As the Roman Empire expanded, it brought bath complexes and new grooming tools with it—from nail care to "ear scoops." Found at the site of Sidi Ghrib near Carthage, this mosaic—titled The Woman of ...

So, who exactly were the Picts? They were a mysterious group of people who resided in what is now northern England and southern Scotland and popped up in the annals of Roman history in the first few ...

The Roses of Heliogabalus by Alma-Tadema (1888) depicts a feast thrown by Elagabalus. Musée Jacquemart-André Based on this quote, North Hertfordshire Museum has reclassified Elagabalus as a ...

A striking and rare, multicolor mosaic has been discovered amid a Roman villa discovered in farmland in Devon, England. The ...