Rome Revealed

Find out how Julius Caesar created one of the most powerful positions in the Roman Empire using business backing, the armed forces and religion to swa...

For centuries, Rome governed hundreds of thousands of people in an empire that covered as much as 2 million square miles. In an age when most travel w...

This is the story of a disaster like no other. When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it rained 8 million tons of debris onto Pompeii it sealed the fate of more...

Over centuries, the Romans transformed a swamp on the banks of the Tiber into a settlement, then a city of brick and ultimately the gleaming marble co...

Archaeological evidence and eyewitness accounts recreate the Colosseum's opening night, featuring a legendary duel. Beast fights in the morning. execu...

Go inside the ancient war machine that was the legion army, the most deadly and disciplined force in the classical world.

Demonized by ancient sources and portrayed throughout history as a cruel madman -- was Emperor Caligula really insane or just the product of a mad wor...

Originally viewed as a mysterious cult, find out how Christianity came to be accepted as the official religion of the Roman Empire.