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Since 1471, the Capitoline Museums have been accumulating masterpieces of ancient art here, with patience and devotion ... He chose the Capitoline Hill, the symbolic centre of the ancient Roman ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000).

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

The discovery is "a drum roll of Roman coins from the late republic through to the early empire".

Victor Davis Hanson compares America's current historical moment to the period surrounding the life of Christ, when the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire, during an interview with ...

Richard Harris played the Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius in the Oscar-winning film, "Gladiator." But who was Marcus Aurelius really?

The Roman house in Vizzini, Sicily appears to have been built sometime between the 2nd and 4th century AD.

The Roman quality of Lucretius does not lie especially in his historic references, nor yet in the direct utterance of national pride.