Rome is a fashionable city, so naturally, you'll want to pack your best clothes, right? But there are other more practical considerations to keep in mind.

Roman clothing probably provided some modesty, but still: Using the bathroom among others is, well, foreign. The women's baths at Herculaneum don't have an adjoining restroom.

During the Roman empire, sculptors in Rome combined a variety of colored marbles together with clothing and gestures in order to emphasize the foreignness of the conquered barbarian and other non ...

Recent finds from a Roman fort in England have sparked re-examination of common notions about fabric production some 2,000 years ago. German experts believe new evidence indicates the Romans had a ...