BCE is the traditional date of the founding of Rome. What does archaeology reveal about when it was really founded?

April 21 is an important day in history as one of the world’s oldest cities in the world, Rome, was founded. The city was ...

April 21 is a date rich with historical significance, marked by events that have shaped cultures, nations, and the course of ...

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

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A beautiful European city known for its historic architecture and has roots to Roman history may "disappear soon", experts ...

According to the Roman scholar, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rome was founded on April the 21st 753 BCE…but he wrote about the story of Romulus and Remus around six hundred years later, so we can’t ...

beginning with the story of Romulus and Remus and the myth of the founding of Rome in 753 BCE and ending with the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in 410 CE. The videos mix animation with ...