Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...

When you leave the Roman city, especially a provincial capital, you would see gradations of the city life, expressing itself primarily through what we call suburbs that were closely tied to the city.

Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion – this was one of the only aspects of life they shared. Some of the main gods and goddesses in Roman religion were Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

What they discovered paints a vivid picture of daily life during the final decades of Roman rule in the region. When archaeologists began their excavation, they identified two main buildings made ...

The mundane-looking objects revealed the story of when disaster struck an ancient Roman city, the reconstruction efforts and its lingering consequences. Archaeologists began excavating a canal in ...