Roman Emperors Were Murdered Nearly Twice as Often as Chinese Emperors: Study...
The fate of emperors in antiquity was far from similar. While ruling in Rome often meant a premature and violent death, Chinese monarchs enjoyed considerably greater survival. This is confirmed by a...
View ArticleThe Law Against Long Hair in Rome in the Year 416: Why Did the Roman Empire...
In the year 416, Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II enacted a law that prohibited wearing long hair in the city of Rome and its surroundings. This regulation, which also forbade the use of fur...
View ArticleThe women who managed Roman villas were much more than simple housekeepers: a...
For decades, historians have described the vilica —the administrator of a Roman villa— as a figure in charge of domestic chores: cooking, cleaning, and caring for the household. However, a thorough...
View ArticleRoman Lead Sling Bullets Reveal Two Distinct Routes in the Conquest of the Alps
In the summer of 15 BC, Emperor Augustus’ two stepsons, Tiberius and Drusus, brought the Central Alps and the Swiss Plateau under Roman control. That campaign concluded decades of efforts to link the...
View ArticleDaorson, the Illyrian capital of the mysterious Daorsi that Rome did not...
On a hill in Herzegovina, less than an hour from Mostar, a limestone wall 65 meters long, 4.2 meters wide, and up to 7.5 meters high still stands, having survived for more than two thousand years...
View ArticleRoman Emperors Did Plan for the Future of Their Dynasties, According to a Study
Were Roman emperors simply improvisers who waited to see what would happen after their death? Or did they carefully plan for the future of their dynasties, thinking not only about their immediate...
View ArticleSamnites, the fierce warriors who humiliated the Roman legions at the Caudine...
One of the greatest affronts suffered by the Roman legions took place in 321 BC, after the Battle of the Caudine Forks. Not only because of the forced surrender, without even fighting, but also due to...
View ArticleTabula Peutingeriana, the only surviving road map of the Roman Empire
On November 26, 2007, the Austrian National Library did something it hardly ever does: it took the Tabula Peutingeriana out of its climate-controlled display case and allowed the public to see it for a...
View ArticleCantabrian Labarum, the military standard that the Romans knew as “cantabrum”
As indicated in its statute of autonomy, the flag of Cantabria (in north Spain) is “formed by two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom”, with the coat of arms in the...
View ArticleAll Lions Belonged to the Emperor — And Rome Had the Paperwork to Prove It
Picture the Colosseum, and the image that comes to mind is almost always the same: a lion bursting into the arena, the crowd roaring, a doomed man backing away. Film and popular history have fixated on...
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