Roman History Made Easy

We've covered the stylistic appearances of the Celtic Gauls before, so this answer is going to be more about the physical face the A...

As is usual with Gallic history, if the Greeks or Romans didn't write about it, we pretty much don't know what happened in Gaul ...

Parallels are frequently made between the rise of Carthage and Rome - they were founded at roughly the same time and used different econ...

One of those big 'ifs' of the Roman-era is how close did they come to having an 'Industrial Revolution' similar to that ...

We know as far empires go Rome was a biggie (sorry, couldn't help making a Life of Brian quote)...but not all empires are made equal ...

If there's one thing that has stayed the same since the Mesopotamians invented the shekel five thousand years ago, its economics. At...

We tend to imagine ancient households - if we imagine them at all - with the lady of the house spending her day by the millstone making ...