When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “Rome was not built in a day.” Caesar Augustus boasted, “I found Rome a city of brick and ...

However, there are two whose names are so well-known that they even appear as characters in several television series and historical novels about ancient Rome. Their names were Titus Pullo and Lucius ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men ...

New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics.

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be traced back to one woman, and showed that men joined the group upon marriage."This is the first time this type of ...

But Italy’s capital is so much more than its awe-inspiring Renaissance buildings and ancient ruins—with a population of over four million, Rome is a fast-paced city on par with cosmopolitan ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

An ancient Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum game board. Credit: wneuheisel / CC BY 2.0 Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in Turkey’s Karabük Province have unearthed two Roman bone ...

The Roman God of Justice was called Justitia and she holds the scales of justice. The Tarpeian Rock was a steep cliff in ancient Rome. It was commonly used during the Roman Republic as an ...