Carthage: The God in the Stone
‘Carthage must be destroyed’ - words from Cato the Elder to seal the Punic city’s fate in its epic struggle with Ancient Rome. But what was its religion and society like?
‘Carthage must be destroyed’ - words from Cato the Elder to seal the Punic city’s fate in its epic struggle with Ancient Rome. But what was its religion and society like?
'All roads lead to Rome' – tribute to a phenomenon that held a world empire together. But who built them and how were they planned and maintained? Logan Thompson tells us more.
Annette Bingham rediscovers Roman Crete
Peter Higgs looks at how a monumental Hellenistic statue sheds light on culture, religion and identity in Roman North Africa.
Exploration of a new museum opening in Lausanne on the Roman settlement in the area
Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?
Diana Webb looks at the miracles and saints populating the basilica of the San Frediano in Lucca.
Keith Nurse investigates new archaeological findings linking wine producing to Roman England.
Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.
Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.