Ancient Rome in a Nutshell. ... Making of a Dictator, we are treated to a reenactment of Julius Caesar handling business and making radical changes as Rome's dictator.

A recent excavation reveals that a large building excavated in 1966 was just a part of an even grander ancient complex.

The Ancient City of Akhetaten, Built as a Capital by Akhenaten, Reemerged as a Christian Sanctuary at the End of the Roman Period. Until now, researchers believed that the city of Amarna (the Arabic ...

Like the wealthy elites of ancient Rome who aligned themselves with a dictator so that they could increase their fortunes, ... Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator.

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Accounts, embellished by William Shakespeare, tell how the Roman dictator was stabbed to death by a group of aggrieved senators on the Ides of March - March 15 - in 44 BC. Sign up here.

We are sad to report that our modern republic – like Rome at that moment – is not well. The era of Trump offers interesting parallels with the reign of the dictator Sulla (138-78 BCE), who ...

While excavating at Hradisko Hill in South Moravia, Czech Republic, archaeologists recently unearthed an 1,800-year-old ...

SPQR stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, which translates to "The Senate and Roman People" or "The Senate and People of Rome." Initially, this acronym was meant to symbolize the ancient Roman ...

We would do well to study Rome’s decline into anarchy and eventual tyranny. It’s true that America has gone through cycles of political violence before: The ’60s and ’70s saw widespread ...