He begins with Aeneas fleeing dying Troy, a link almost certainly fabricated to give Rome a tie to the Greek epic. There follows the birth of the twins Romulus and Remus to the Vestal Rhea Sylvia, the ...

Two of these descendants were Romulus and Remus, the twin brothers abandoned ... records and set it as the starting point of Roman chronology: years were subsequently measured ab urbe condita, or ...

You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...

Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome ... her the divine mother of the Roman people. Similarly, Mars was the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.

Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi - the world's first de-extinct dire wolves - represent not just a scientific milestone but the living, breathing return of an iconic Ice Age predator that disappeared from ...

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th ...

You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...