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 structure of ancient ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common - high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

which categorizes people by social position along with associated incomes. The result is a Gini coefficient. The Roman Empire scored 0.46 and Han China scored 0.48. On such a scale, the number "1 ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

Patrician families made up the ruling class, meaning they were in jobs ... that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient ...

The Roman Empire ... the collapse of empires. What is an Empire? History has seen the rise and fall of countless empires, from Ghengis Khan’s Mongol Empire to the kingdom of Assyria. While they vary ...