♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Ancient Rome lasted a thousand years, from 500 BC to AD 500 It grew for 500 years, peaked for 200, and fell for 300 years. Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that.

The mosaic depicts scenes from Greek and Roman mythology. ... 25 tokens from the most popular game in ancient Rome and glass beads. The ancient Roman Empire lasted from 27 B.C. to 476 A.D.

Not everything in Louisiana is Cajun land,” Harris said. "Greek culture was important to many of the early settlers in ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

While modern scholars discount some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians, they agree that during the first phase of its history—from approximately 753 to 509 B.C.—Rome was ruled by kings.

But there is evidence that nanotechnology could have existed as far back as the 4th century in ancient Rome. That evidence lies in this, ... The mythology that explains the scene varies a bit, ...

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, by Mary Beard. Liveright. 512 pages. $39.99. If men think about the Roman Empire all the time, they do not do it under conditions of their own making.

Ancient Rome. Season 1 Episode 6 | 27m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization ...

Lead pollution likely dropped the average IQ in ancient Rome by 2.5 to 3 points, a study found. The research is based on an analysis of lead concentrations in ice cores extracted from Greenland.

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...