It's August in the year 410. The eternal city of R... ...sigoths eventually left the city, but the western Roman Empire never recovered from this blow, triggering a sequ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/07/02/Advice-for-Time-Travelers-How-to-Survive-the-Worst-Events-in-History/Through one means or another, you've been given th... ..., shares his expertise with us. His insights into Roman political history allow us to avoid tumultuous pe... ...t Ryan has made for time travelers to the distant Roman past. His others include instructions for partici... ...others include instructions f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/17/A-Time-Travelers-Guide-to-Ancient-Rome/Hadrian (r. 117-138) lived to the ripe old age of... ...ses. He was an outlier on that count. Only 25% of Roman Emperors died of peacefully. That's if you count...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/10/19/A-Data-Scientist-Crunches-the-Numbers-on-the-Lifespans-of-Roman-Emperors/The way milk was regarded during ancient times is... ...hical differences get turned into xenophobia. The Roman Empire had plenty of reasons to distrust the people it c... ...ust another custom that separated the "civilized" Romans from everyone else, and it disgusted them. Dur... ...Celts for excessive mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/02/Remembering-When-Only-Barbarians-Drank-Milk/Everyone goes through a rebellious phase. You know... ...Civilization, just like Justa Grata Honoria, the Roman princess whose wild ways and naked ambition set... ...action that culminated in the destruction of the Roman Empire .Barely Regal Smart, conniving, and ruthless, Hono... ...Honoria possessed all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/16/The-Scheming-Princess-Behind-the-Fall-of-the-Roman-Empire/(Photo: City Council of Tomares/AP)Construction workers in Tomares, Spain were laying pipe when they found 19 amphorae (ceramic jars) containing 1,300 pounds of bronze and silver coins that date back to 4th Century A.D....
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/30/Construction-Workers-Find-Over-Half-a-Ton-of-Roman-Coins/Yes, we do have world maps from the time Jesus was... ...her named Strabo, who was born at the edge of the Roman Empire , in what is now Turkey, about 64 BC. He was educa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/17/How-The-World-Looked-When-Jesus-Was-Born-According-to-Roman-Geographers/Your task is to make your way from the Cripplegate... ...ning at that weird blue box. Clear?If the ancient Romans who built London (then Londinium) had also built...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/07/Tube-Map-of-Roman-London/(Photo: Pascal Radique)Are you a modern, forward-t... ...from ancient Rome in a thoughtful essay at Aeon. Roman slave management manuals and other surviving reco... ...ht into corporate leadership. Toner explains:Most Romans , like Augustus, thought cruelty to slaves was sho... ...rified into being good at th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/22/What-Roman-Slave-Owners-Knew-about-Managing-Staff/(Images: Livius, NBC)Webcomic artist Zach Weinersmith noticed the uncanny resemblance. Marcus Aurelius, the Emperor of Rome from 161-180 A.D., had a similar face and hairstyle of Screech Powers, a character on Saved by t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/11/Roman-Emperor-Marcus-Aurelius-Looked-a-Lot-Like-Screech/