Scott is on more familiar turf in “Gladiator II,” which Paramount Pictures will release on November 22. He is back in ancient ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

At the same time, classical architecture was also a main source of inspiration for the utopian city’s design, given its ...

When workers were building a McDonald's in Frattocchie, Italy, they stumbled across a road from ancient Rome. McDonald's ...

St. John Lateran's facade bears the Latin inscription of "Mother and Head of all the Churches in the City and the World." ...

Saira Mueller is the interim culture editor at Polygon. She is fascinated by health and technology and has written about it for CNN, Wired, Mashable, and Self. After playing the new city-builder ...

the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day Alexa Robles-Gil The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress.

Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is back with the highly anticipated Gladiator II, proving there's no ...

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

North of Ancient Rome are the districts of Corso and Spagna ... The fountain features breathtaking architecture, and was featured in Fellini's iconic film "La Dolce Vita," but it's most famous ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...