Almost 2,000 years ago, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Just over a ...

Leading Roman Armies “…command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law, but rather a dynamic set of ideas shaped by traditional practice…” When we study ancient Ro ...

What led to the demise of the Roman Republic? Experts now believe that the eruption of a remote Alaskan volcano may be partly to blame. The Okmok volcano erupted early in the year 43 BC, spewing ...

A massive volcanic eruption in Alaska in 43 B.C. may have contributed to the demise of the ancient Roman Republic, a new study has suggested. The research notes the Mount Okmok eruption spewed ...

For decades, the official history of ancient Rome has repeated the same idea: in the last decades of the Republic, freed ...

A dire warning in the month of May that in Ancient Rome bore religious rites for the dead, making it an unlucky time for ...