After decades of war between their cities, the generals Scipio Africanus and Hannibal faced off at the Battle of Zama.

Want to know how Rome became the world’s superpower? Meet the five generals who led its armies, crushed its enemies, and secured its legacy. Their names are etched in history—for good reason.

The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a bestselling tale of second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on ...

There are countless movies about or set in the Roman Empire, but it sometimes feels like Hollywood forgot about Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who terrorized Rome in its early years. Not ...

Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis Ford Coppola compares to modern-day America. The Roman Forum was a hub for ...