Romans Week

Marble bust of Emperor Caligula. (DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The 8 bloodiest Roman emperors in history

Boudica and her daughters stand aloft in a bronze chariot in this statue located on the Thames embankment in London.

Boudica: scourge of the Roman empire

Despite popular misconception, Gladiatorial fighting was not the most popular entertainment in Ancient Rome. (Alamy)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Romans

A Pompeii mural depicting a slave, in the Naples Museum. (Photo by Sites & Photos/Capture Ltd/ Alamy Stock Photo)

In Ancient Rome, what was the law of the twelve tables?

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

Roman mosaic of a dog, bearing the legend 'Cave Canem' underneath, from Pompeii, from Naples National Museum's collection, 1st century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about animals in ancient Rome

Appia Antica (The Appian Way), Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe. (Getty)

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?

The skull of a Roman man from London

In pictures: Romans and their dead

Julius Caesar, depicted in a first-century BC bust

Caesar’s British gamble

ITALY - CIRCA 2002: The last days of Pompeii, August 24, 79, by Karl Brjullov (1799-1852), 1830, oil on canvas, 456.5x651 cm. Flavian dynasty, Italy, 1st century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

24 August AD 79 – Pompeii is engulfed by ash

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How did the Romans celebrate ‘Christmas’?

A Roman relief showing a market scene

A handbook to shopping in ancient Rome

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Etruscan civilization, 5th century b.C. Bronze statue of Capitoline she-wolf, height 75 cm. From Rome, Italy. (Photo By DEA / G. NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

10 key Roman dates you need to know

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Silbannacus: the Roman emperor that time forgot