The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?
I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...
Human remains excavated in an ancient well in Croatia were likely those of ancient Roman soldiers, a new study suggests. © 2025 Novak et al. CC BY 4.0 In 2011 ...
A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ago. The lifelike image by forensic artist Hew Morrison used the skull of a ...
Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...
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