Blog 8 articles
- How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire?
- Roman Concrete: The Mystery of Opus Caementicium
- 5 Roman Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Wrong)
- What Does SPQR Mean?
- Julius Caesar: Ten Facts Worth Knowing
- Why Did Rome Fall? The Real Reasons
- Roman Gladiators: What the Arena Was Really Like
- The Roman Emperors: From Augustus to the End
Fact Archive 60 facts across 12 categories
Culture
Daily life
- Hours that changed length
- A tax on urine
- Daily handwritten news
- Numerals without zero
- A city of a million
- A public postal service
- Concrete apartment blocks
- Rome's favorite condiment
- A sundial that lied for a century
- Slaves could become citizens
- The Roman bath circuit
- The toga marked a citizen
- Water from the street corner
- Dining lying down