Champagne flowed in ancient Rome
They came, they saw, they quaffed champagne. One of France's most prized treasures, the original bubbly, is not original at...
Historians Give Romans Better Marks In Democracy
Conventional view that Roman republic was corrupt oligarchy ruled by rich and decadent aristocracy is challenged by scholars who argue...
Ice Cap Shows Ancient Mines Polluted the Globe
Samples extracted from Greenland's two-mile-deep ice cap yield evidence that ancient Carthaginian and Roman silver miners working in southern Spain...
Underground Rome
A good way to study ancient Rome is to explore the cellars -- and subcellars -- of modern Rome.
WOMEN'S CULTS OF ANTIQUITY: THE VEIL RISES
The excavation of a mysterious shrine in southern Italy has renewed scholarly interest in a shadowy all-woman cult that was...
Roman Empire's Fall is Linked with Gout and Lead Poisoning
An article shared on the Paideia Institute's Online Public Classics Archive
Bridges of Rome: Spanning the Centuries
Rome's history seen through the history of the bridges along the Tiber.
The Gymnasium
"Education among the Greeks was peculiarly calculated for the development of the mind and the body in common. It is...