Ancient marble bust of Emperor Caracalla, 212-217. In the collections of the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

The Roman Empire is one of the most famous empires in history, which at one point was basically the world's first superpower with how much of the world it encompassed. It has been a fascinating ...

Did the kings of Rome ever really exist, or where they just an invention from the Republic era? This article examines the ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

Greek and Roman records reveal that Evander, a Greek king from before the Trojan War, was the true founder of the city of Rome.

There are very few people who know more about the history of ancient Rome than Mike Duncan. The creator and host of the tremendously popular History of Rome podcast, which first aired between 2007 and ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Marble fragment of a sarcophagus depicting the Roman Senate during a procession on the occasion of the appointment of a consul. Rothman is managing editor at TIME.