Art World It Wasn’t Just Pompeii. Archaeologists Say the Roman Republic and Even Ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Kingdom May Have Been Ended by Volcanoes The eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano may ...

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).

Explore the fall of the Roman republic. How did Rome turn into an empire under the control of one man - Augustus?

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.

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 ...

In theory, the Roman Republic was designed to represent both wealthy and poor citizens, but the reality was quite different.

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.