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The Circus Maximus was the largest sports venue the ancient world ever built, capable of holding somewhere between 150,000 and 250,000 spectators — the ancient sources give figures that seem implausibly large but are not entirely implausible given the site’s archaeology. For …
The bronze is perhaps eight centimeters tall and has been in Hannover’s Museum August Kestner for longer than most living people can account for. It …
Rome fed a significant portion of its population for free, and had been doing so, in various forms, for over five centuries by the time the Western …
The city of Rome at its height had a population of somewhere between half a million and a million people — the estimates vary and the ancient census …
The Roman bath was not primarily about hygiene. That framing, which modern people find intuitive, misses what made the baths central to Roman urban …
A museum case in Berlin’s Altes Museum holds a collection of Roman domestic bronzes from Rome and Pompeii, first through fourth century AD, under a …
The Saturnalia began on December 17 and lasted, in its imperial development, for seven days. It was the most popular festival in the Roman calendar, …
Roman food is one of the most misrepresented topics in popular history. The standard image — wealthy Romans reclining at banquets, eating dormice and …
Roman clothing was a system of social communication before it was a system of warmth or modesty. What a Roman wore told every observer who saw them …
