Roman News (Ancient News). Dive into the heart of the empire! Rome, the City of the Seven Hills, the Capital of the World, there is no shortage of superlatives to designate the Empire which reigned, from the 1st to the 5th century, over a large part of Europe, North Africa and Europe. Western Asia. But the Romans, do you know what they were? what were they going through? what they thought? Do you know their occupations, their beliefs, their distractions? Do you know their desires, their concerns, their hopes?