Ranking immediately below senators, equestrians became an important human resource, whose work underpinned the smooth running of the Roman Empire ... of the provinces. Over the following decades ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman ... parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal with Christians in the Asian provinces, Trajan ...

of rivers and canals Map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the empire in 200 CE It calculates the route based on the season, or mode of transport chosen - and ...

The tablet shows that Carlisle was a part of the imperial world with its international communications, exchanging letters with other provinces of the Roman empire. This tablet also has a local ...