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Women Gladiators: Sensational spectator sport for Roman audiences

Apart from the usual foot races, javelin throwing and so on, the games included female chariot races

Caesars loved tweezers! Plucking Romans were obsessed with hair removal

Vanity & Plucking: A public & private obsession

The law that led to Roman honor killings & other extreme Roman marriage laws

Laws were everything for Romans...

Roman carvings of a smiley face and a phallus found in Spain

Dating back to the Bronze Age, archaeologists have recovered pottery, tools, and ornaments, suggesting this site was an ancient trading hub

The Gladiator Emperor: Commodus and the bloodlust of Ancient Rome (video)

His reign was marked by corruption, violence, and excess, and craziness and he was eventually overthrown and assassinated by his own people

Ancient Roman “spike defenses” made famous by Julius Caesar found in Germany

Archaeologists have found ancient Roman "barbed wire" famously used & written about by Julius Caesar for the first time near a German silver mine

Roman Aqueduct of Nikopolis: The ancient technological marvel in Preveza

Nikopolis is the “child” of a transitional but pivotal period in which Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire

What did ancient Romans eat?

How many meals did they have a day?

Stunning 3D recreation brings Alexander the Great and the legends of the past to life (incredible photos-videos)

They look like your average person today

What did people use before toilet paper? (photos)

In case you were wondering...

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