“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... This is the person we know as Herod the Great. For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political ...

A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

There are "any number of specific reasons why men might think a lot about the Roman Empire, to be sure, but in my experience, lots of people spend a lot of time thinking about history," historian ...

Analyses of Arctic ice layers point to concentrations of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that ... The effect on the intelligence of ancient people across Europe – especially ...