First transmitted in 1960, Sir Mortimer Wheeler surveys some of the Roman Empire’s most impressive architectural feats and the artworks that characterised the period. Show more First transmitted ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F.

Beyond its practical purposes, the psychological impact of the wall must have been tremendous. For nearly three centuries, ...

and studies their development over a thousand years throughout the Roman Empire. Chapters are devoted to technique, to the role of mosaics in architecture, and to their social implications and the ...

Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military ...

Traditionally, 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 ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental Byzantine basilica in Aquileia, Italy, revealing the city's significance under Emperor ...

The wall, standing about one metre high and 16 metres long, revealed ancient architecture that pointed to large, public ...

Aquileia, a small town in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, is now a modest place with barely 3,000 ...

In 2019, many people watched in horror as black smoke poured out of Notre-Dame de Paris, the 12th-century Roman ... Empire ...