Ancient Rome as you’ve never seen it before

Sometimes, a single narrative comes to dominate how we remember a year. So it is with 1776. This, as every history lover knows, was the date that the American colonies declared their independence, beg

A mosaic from the third or fourth century AD depicts gladiatorial combat. Rather than having slender, muscular bodies like modern athletes, these Roman fighters were lopsided and fat The gladiators of

Collecting fields often have holy grails, and in medieval illuminated manuscripts one is the Roman d’Alexandre or Romance of Alexander. The 20cm-tall book, written in Old French and illustrated with 1

A Roman villa has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

A millennium ago, the land that is now the United States looked very different from how many might imagine it. Instead of a sparsely populated wilderness, across much of North America people inhabited