While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

Cleopatra, the most famous member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Credit: Mary Harrsch / Flickr CC BY 2.0 Cleopatra VII Philopator is one of the most famous figures of antiquity, but few people are familiar ...

A man has shared how he found a coin dating back to 69 AD buried in a field near Dudley. The gold Roman coin is believed to be first of its kind ever found in Britain and is set to fetch thousands at ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An aerial view of Arles next to the Rhône River in France. Scientists may have found the ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins spanning two centuries has been discovered in a field by a detectorist. The denarii date from the late Roman Republic to the reign of Marcus Aurelius and his wife ...

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...