Photograph by BBS Ferrari/Getty Images Capitalizing on the chaos, Goths and other Germanic tribes began attacking Roman borders. To help repel these attacks, Rome began forming complex alliances ...

Some goths dress in lavish faux-Victorian clothes ... It is strange to think that a word referring to an ancient population became a way to describe a new and exciting style of literature, film ...

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In Europe the rebel Gallic empire started to break away from Rome. Weakened and distracted ... On returning from a campaign against the Goths in Cappadocia (central Turkey), a relative murdered ...

Veni, vidi, vici! Here are the best games set in Ancient Rome. The fun part of the Goths is their cultural syncretism with ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, gossip and relax. They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ...

Francis Ford Coppola used Rome as the guiding metaphor for his lifelong project Megalopolis. Our legal language is packed with Latinate homage. OK! We get it! Ancient Rome dominates The Culture ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...

It took rampaging Goths to close down the Baths of Caracalla ... Often deserted, Ostia Antica is Ancient Rome’s impressively preserved port, once a buzzing town in its own right.