Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient ...

For the ordinary Roman, food was basic. The staple diet consisted mostly of a wheat-based porridge, seasoned with herbs or meat if available. However, as Sally Grainger's recipes show, on special ...

My guess is that the Roman owner of the mosaic loved the nature all around his home. Because we were not able to keep the original, and because I enjoy making ancient mosaic replicas, I gathered a ...

Wealthy Romans'villa-farms and town houses had mosaic flooring in important rooms. Two complete mosaics, found during excavations at Magnis in 1912-13, are displayed in the stairwell of the museum.

While the Bardo Museum as a whole is impressive, one of the its main attractions is the staggering number of ancient ... the mosaic and museum collection is the only known mosaic of the Roman ...

This fragment of mosaic formed part of an elaborate tessellated pavement which covered the floor of a two-chambered room in a Roman building at Cherhill, near Calne. The panel shows a hunting dog ...