A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula home. They built a culture that lasted for nearly 800 years, but it was no ...

From soldier wages to political fortunes, Roman earnings reveal how war, wealth, and ambition shaped power in the ancient world.