From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...

The ancient Romans had very different ideas about sex and gender to us, meaning they had lots of practices that you might find shocking. You might think modern conceptions and norms around sex and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here are 22 facts about ancient Rome that'll keep you occupied the next time you're thinking about it: 1.Rome wasn't built in a ...

PEOPLE of the last century had a very easy time with their Roman history, and any gentleman could pick up enough of it “in course of his morning’s reading” to answer the demands of a lifetime. Men ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

So, who exactly were the Picts? They were a mysterious group of people who resided in what is now northern England and southern Scotland and popped up in the annals of Roman history in the first few ...