It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the republic and the imperial period, then of Christianity and the splintering of the ...

But her education began humbly, in a three-room schoolhouse in ... to be trained in archaeological methods at Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E.

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...