Stephen Decasien News Today

This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome's popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those assemblies had, we noted, was the election…

Ph.D. candidate Stephen DeCasien was invited to the site of an astounding discovery off the coast of Sicily but couldn’t go due to pandemic restrictions at the time, so he did the next best thing.

A student of nautical archaeology at Texas A&M University has created a naval ram, a nearly 3,000-year-old weapon used by the ancient Greeks and Romans.