Homo sapiens first reached Europe some 45,000 years ago, having trekked thousands of miles from Africa. These ancestors are ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Roman history in video games offers a variety of genres from CRPGs to city-building simulations, appealing to history buffs and strategy fans alike. Games like CivCity: Rome and Expeditions: Rome ...

Credit: Public Domain Cleopatra VII Philopater ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. After her death, the Roman Empire took control ...

44 BC: The Ides Of March (Killers, 1981) A pivotal event in the history of the Roman Empire, the assassination of Julius Caesar occurred on March 15, “ides” referring to the middle days of a month in ...

Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC). Right ... now fragmented parts of Alexander the Great’s empire.

How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about ... Sulla, by the way, was the notorious first-century BC dictator who had hundreds of his political opponents ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.

"This papyrus is extraordinary because it provides direct insight into trial preparations in this part of the Roman Empire," says Dr. Dolganov. Dr. Ecker adds, "This is the best-documented Roman ...

when it would have been demolished and replaced by a much larger second forum, reflecting the rapid growth and importance of Londinium in the Roman Empire.

The remarkably well-preserved basilica was part of a public meeting place where citizens and politicians could socialize, shop and hear speeches in the growing city Eli Wizevich Researchers ...