In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman ...

Founded by Hillel Einhorn in 1977, the Roman Family Center for Decision Research helped to pioneer the use of science to explain inconsistencies between actual and theoretically rational human ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The tree is a small common juniper which is growing in the Finnish Lapland. It has been standing since the Roman Empire and it might be surprising to some that the tree is not a huge towering oak ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...