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 ...
A recent study has shed new light on the vastness of the ancient Roman road network, revealing that it stretched far longer ...
After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of a kind once thought to be limited to modern industrial societies. That is ...
It should be noted that two of the many reasons why the Roman Empire failed is because they were unable to protect their borders and the lavish spending of their Emperor Nero, which brought on an ...
Note on the maps -- 1. The Severan provinces, and the dioceses and provinces of the Verona list -- 2. Dioceses and provinces according to the Notitia Dignitatum -- 3. Financial districts, treasuries, ...
Two currency crises two thousand years apart. Modern-day Venezuela and the Roman Empire have more in common than you might think. Both know too well the dangers of soaring inflation and a collapse in ...