Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has been turned into a ten-mile-long archaeological park best reconnoitered by ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire ... Well, there we are, a taster of British Roman history in a matter of minutes. The Romans had lots of different ...

Read more about the rise and fall of ancient civilizations ... comeback This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... top of one another. Rome had as many as 11 aqueduct systems, the most ancient of which was ...