Long before modern plumbing, the Romans built a sanitation system so advanced, it arguably saved more lives than any gladiator or general. Their aqueducts, sewers, and public baths weren’t just ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the melting pot of modern New York, ancient Rome was home ...

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The mythical Romulus and Remus may get the credit, but Rome's archaeology ... began taking control of the city. While modern scholars discount some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians ...

Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has been turned into a ten-mile-long archaeological park best reconnoitered by ...

At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria ... With the volume and value of eastern imports at such high levels in imperial Rome, the tariffs collected were enormous.

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