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In 20 BC Augustus set up a gilded marker in the Forum, the Milliarium Aureum (the Golden Milestone), to show where every road in the empire began. Two thousand years later we still say all roads lead to Rome. A new study says the empire’s own road map disagrees. The paper, …
Museum displays of Roman building material tend to be badly labelled and quickly walked past. A broken lump of wall behind glass with a card reading …
A blacksmith, a stable boy, a soldier, a slave. These are the sort of people who almost never survive in the historical record — no monuments, no …
The Roman public latrine is one of the few structures from antiquity that still makes modern visitors physically uncomfortable. A long stone bench, …
On the morning of August 24, 79 AD — though some scholars now argue for a date in October based on pomegranate seeds and autumn clothing found in the …