Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

From dealing with nits to learning the three Rs, ancient Roman childhood bore some striking similarities to the modern ...

"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments", proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (first to second century A.D.), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 sesterces would be ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace ...

During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

Recognizable quotes on the ancient Romans: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “Rome was not built in a day.” Caesar Augustus boasted, “I found Rome a city of brick and left ...