Melbourne Museum is set to transport visitors back two millennia with Rome: Empire, Power, People, a major new exhibition ...

The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, and its inundation was the pivotal annual event in Egyptian civilization. Every summer, between May and September, the river gradually swelled until it ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

For Romans, Augustus was the saviour who ended civil war; Tacitus reveals how power and propaganda traded liberty for the Pax ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

The Council of Nicaea, which convened in 325 AD under Emperor Constantine, changed the history of Christianity.