Roman numerals are still used today (you’d know that if you would stay to the end of a movie). And they are numerals, not Roman numbers. If the Romans had used different numbers from what we know today, we would have the hell of a time converting them to our use. Roman numbers, in fact, don’t exist, scrap the term and start using Roman numerals.

The rise and fall of gladiatorial combat.

If you are easily offended by, or queasy at, the mentioning of blood-spilling, please skip this, or, read at your own risk.

In ancient Rome, a funeral for the dead was far more than just a service and a wake. Romans believed that in order for the soul to pass properly into the next life, a body had to have a proper funeral and burial.

An essay which explains the development of the Roman Republic to the fall of the Roman Empire.