Mark Zuckerberg joked about his obsession with the Roman Empire in response to a viral meme. The Facebook founder honeymooned in Rome and named two of his daughters after Roman emperors. His rival ...

A recent TikTok trend shows that men think about the Roman Empire more often than expected. Amy Briggs, editor-in-chief of National Geographic History Magazine, reveals why it still resonates.

The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break the top 20. Clustered around the Mediterranean, it stretched from Portugal in ...

A viral trend about the Roman Empire puts on display our cultural obsession with myths about classical history, writes historian David M. Perry; at the same time, it underscores a social ...

The history expert assumed that the accessibility of Roman artifacts is what keeps the empire top of mind for some people. “There’s no shortage of material from that time to consume,” she said.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476 (the eastern half, also known as the Byzantine Empire, persisted until 1453), people continued to strip the Colosseum of its materials during ...

Mark Zuckerberg has joked that he is "not sure" how often he thinks about the Roman Empire, despite naming his daughters after Roman emperors. "Not sure if I think about the Roman Empire too much ...