Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated by men.

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family’s ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

Women - were they any different in Roman times from how they are today? Sort truth from fiction to decide if things have changed since women were first depicted as loving or resentful wives, daughters ...

IN THIS first volume of his new science-fiction trilogy, Destiny’s Children, Stephen Baxter’s theme is the evolution of family. After his father’s death, George Poole discovers he has a twin sister.