Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Petar Milošević - Own work - CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. Roman history often brings to mind a parade of emperors, ...
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Is this 1,800-year-old mosaic the first known image of a woman fighting wild beasts in an ancient Roman arena?
A researcher may have identified a depiction of a female hunter—known as a venatrix—in an ancient Roman mosaic. According to ...
In the shadow of Vesuvius, Pompeii has long offered an unparalleled window into ancient Roman life—but the view has been skewed. For centuries, women’s roles in the city have been overlooked or ...
When you think of a fight between an animal and a human in ancient Roman sports, the mental image is usually of a big man vs.
In 203 CE, a young, African Christian woman named Vibia Perpetua was executed in a brutal fashion. She and her fellow Christians were taken to the amphitheatre of Carthage (now in Tunisia), where they ...
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