#Roman Empire

Earlier this week, as I was laying in bed playing Starfield and she was in the living room watching Big Brother, my girlfriend — seemingly out of the blue — asked me how often I think about the Roman Empire. “Huh? The Roman Empire? Why?” I wondered. What the hell could my girlfriend do with this

A new viral trend has emerged where women ask the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire. These women are completely blown away to learn that men think about the Roman Empire daily. To be clear, the viral trend is about the Roman Empire and not the Holy Roman Empire. The

Author: Ben Dooley, Makiko Inoue and Hisako Ueno / Source: New York Times Franck Robichon/EPA, via Shutterstock TOKYO — Lost data. Emails that disappear into the ether. Servers that never connect. All thanks to the ascension of a new emperor to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Japan is scrambling to

Source: Atlas Obscura To the casual observer, the Mausoleum of Theoderic is far from being one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in Italy, or even near Ravenna. But when you learn that the roof is made of one single stone slab weighing 230 tons, and that no one is quite sure how the

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Colatura is the traditional Italian fish sauce made from anchovies that is an important part of the Mediterranean diet. Historically called garum, it literally saved the fishing industry during the era of the Roman Empire. After thousands of years, the