Class struggle isn’t a modern invention — it’s been with us for thousands of years. Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at ...

A series of four new rooms unearthed in a family home in Pompeii in southern Italy have revealed how the ancient Roman city's middle class struggled to keep up their status.

As reported by several ancient sources, including Cicero and Livy, in 204 B.C. the Roman state consulted a set of prophetic scrolls called the Sibylline Oracles on how best to respond to the ...

Excavations in the ancient ruins have unearthed ... as recent research has focused on the complex stratification of Pompeii’s society, including the lowest classes, ... Avoid Taxes in Ancient Rome?: ...

The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C. and fell in A.D. 476. And in A.D. 2023, it went viral on TikTok. In posts shared on social media, women have been asking the men in their lives how often they ...

Bones discovered in a cesspit in Mallorca show this item was likely fried and served by urban street vendors to lower and middle class residents, study said.

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...