The Via Egnatia was an ancient Roman road that ran from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium, connecting northern ancient Greek ...

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

The idea that a silent, toxic metal helped unravel one of history’s greatest empires sounds like historical noir, but it is ...

Explore the Roman aqueduct of ancient Nikopolis in Greece, where impressive engineering, historic architecture, and the legacy of Roman infrastructure combine to reveal a fascinating glimpse into ...

A gaggle of Romans in Mel Brooks’s 1981 classic, “History of the World, Part 1” (Wikimedia Commons) When I lived in Philadelphia in my early 20s, my walk to work regularly took me past a statue of ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...