A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them. Neither were they taught how to write, so they ...

Life for women in Roman times was often hard. Women ran the home, cooking and raising the children. In wealthy families, enslaved people often did this work. Discipline for children was very firm ...

Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis Ford Coppola compares to modern-day America. The Roman Forum was a hub ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

F.A. VAN SANTFORD, in Harper's Bazar. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may ...

Popular media, such as the 2000 film "Gladiator," often depict Roman gladiators in gory battles that don't end until at least one of the fighters is slain. But in real life, did gladiators really ...

For Mantel that villain was Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s ruthless henchman, who was recast in her prose as a proto-secular ...

Roman piping systems carried water from sources to the city for dozens of miles. The route had to gently slope to allow gravity to carry the water to its destination. Engineers followed the land ...

Tian, Yue Montelli, Raffaella Nolet, Guust and Dahlen, F.A. 2007. Computing traveltime and amplitude sensitivity kernels in finite-frequency tomography. Journal of ...

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Police Officer Jaime Roman, who died nearly two months after being shot in Kensington during a traffic stop, was laid to rest Thursday. He was posthumously ...