Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military colony. Thousands of years later, it was unearthed. The major discovery ...

First transmitted in 1960, Sir Mortimer Wheeler surveys some of the Roman Empire’s most impressive architectural feats and the artworks that characterised the period. Show more First transmitted ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...