Andrew Wilson, a professor of the archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford, is visting campus this week as the speaker for a four-part lecture series sponsored by the Department of Classics. The last ...

A year-by-year economic history of the Roman Empire might seem as impossible to reconstruct as the lost 107 books of Livy’s history of Rome. Yet something close to such a record has now been retrieved ...

People also invested and traded in precious goods, like artworks. When the Romans sacked the city of Corinth in 146 BC, they stole the city’s collection of famous artwork, and later sold the ...

A year-by-year economic history of the Roman Empire might seem as impossible to reconstruct as the lost 107 books of Livy’s history of Rome. Yet something close to such a record has now been retrieved ...

The ancient Romans failed to leave any systematic body of thoughts on economics, just like the ancient Greeks had failed to. Indeed, many of whatever ideas the Romans expressed on such economic themes ...

We know a lot about the Roman Empire. Not only did famous Romans like Julius Caesar write about their own accomplishments and plaster their names and works on public buildings, historians also ...

The Oxford Roman Economy Project is a long-term effort to compile, analyze and interpret quantitative datasets related to the ancient Roman economy and its evolution. The project has recently made ...

Pompeii may symbolize catastrophe, but its aftermath provides a blueprint for rebuilding. By Annalee Newitz Mx. Newitz is a contributing Opinion writer. Their most recent book, “Four Lost Cities: A ...