Some of the similarities between ancient Rome at its height and the United States are obvious — from the sheer size of both ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

We can gain more insight on our modern problem by turning to ancient Rome for a lesson on ... thereby breaking up the massive estates of rich Roman senators and distributing the land to the ...

The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ... into the Senate was a big step. Over time, the Senate would be open to Roman citizens from outside Italy. By the end of the first ...

JULIA: I’m at a Roman bathhouse in Bath in the south west of England. It was built by the Romans nearly two thousand years ago. These stacks of tiles are part of a very clever Roman invention ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced ... In fact, slaves looked so similar to Roman citizens that the Senate once considered a plan to make them wear special clothing ...