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 ...

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jenn Rice is a nomadic journalist who covers food and drink. For years I gazed at the maritozzi in bakeries across Rome, admiring ...

ROME — How do we understand the antiquity of a place? It can often be measured in strata — the mound of Hisarlik, the site of ancient Troy, has more than 40 distinct layers of habitation, which means ...