Although he preferred order to chaos, Virgil’s writing showed he knew there were ... with the complex relations at the heart of the Roman Empire. Virgil worked on “The Aeneid” for the ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain ... who were spreading into Rome from Judaea, writing how 'an arrest was made of all who pleaded guilty ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its ... Like soldiers ever since, they spent much of their free time writing letters home, asking for news and warm clothing. When they retired ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered ... Their findings suggest that the Roman Empire had an industrial-scale production of standardized wax tablets.

gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the Roman Empire. But while there's plenty of Roman writing and art about gladiators, their bodily remains are rare. Now, a team of ...

There are historical accounts of battles between Germanic tribes and the Romans on the border of the Roman Empire at the end ... sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true.