We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans ... looking at the big picture. What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their aqueducts?

An integral part of daily life in ancient ... Rome itself. To Romans, the baths proved that they were cleaner – and therefore better – than inhabitants of other countries. As the Roman Empire ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

getting involved in the affairs of subject communities in the eastern Roman empire, interceding with Augustus to secure a tax exemption for the islanders of Samos The ancient evidence relating to ...