Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

The 1st century BC marked the last days of the Roman Republic and creation of the province of Lusitania as part of the ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

with the first recorded Roman gladiator games in the 3rd century BC. What's also unknown is how this individual died, or if he was killed during one of the public battles. Each gladiator fight ...

In the 1960s, archaeologist Yigael Yadin discovered in the Cave of Letters, in the Judean Desert, a treasure trove of objects ...