The Senate continued to meet in Rome just as it had for nearly a millennium. Latin remained the language of administration.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here are 22 facts about ancient Rome that'll keep you occupied the next time you're thinking about it: 1.Rome wasn't built in a ...

We tend to think about people in the past as more prudish and strict about sex and gender. But really people have been experimenting with sex and gender for as long as humans have existed. In the ...

“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” It's a question that became a viral trend back in 2023. Thanks to a Swedish influencer who curiously asked her followers to find out. Women all over ...

From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Army embarked on a far-flung hunt for silver. A new discovery reveals how close they came to finding an empire-altering fortune. Roman money, like this coin bearing ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's experiences with the census. In the guest blog on Papyrology, ancient historian Anna ...