It’s the home of Commodus Maximus, a Roman architect, and his slave, Josephus. Life as a slave in ancient Rome was usually very hard. They worked in mines and on farms, and many worked in houses ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

Gladiator II sweeps viewers back to the gladiator fights and political conflict that were characteristic of the ancient ... Commodus’ life. Geta and Caracalla are sibling co-emperors of the ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...