Ancient Rome is important, Mary Beard tells us at the start of “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome” (Liveright, $35), her smart and exuberant survey of the first millennium of Roman history. “Rome still ...

A painting of the library in the house of Domitian on the Palatine. Rome's long history is explored in a new illustrated book on archaeology and history. Wikimedia Commons Rome wasn’t built in a day, ...

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

The United States didn’t simply poof into existence, fully formed, from the brains of the Founders. History guided them as they crafted the American system of governance. This included the European ...

Ramsay MacMullen, Dunham Professor Emeritus of History and Classics and one of the greatest Roman historians of his age, died on Nov. 27 at his home in New Haven. He was 94. MacMullen is best known ...

The Pax Romana—the 200-year “golden age” of the Roman Empire—was a marvel of diversity, connectivity, and unchallenged hegemony. By the middle of the second century AD, imperial Rome ruled territory ...

“The prolonged and extreme drought seems to have occurred during a particularly poor period for Roman Britain,” Andreas ...

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...