Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s ...

Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts — the latter being a 179 episode, ...