How did an obscure village in central Italy become the first global superpower?
SPQR stands for Senatus PopulusQue Romanus, "The Senate and People of Rome." This is their story.

Ancient Rome matters to us: we still judge our own societies against the backdrop of its history of kings, the Senate, and the twelve Caesars, of conquest and destruction, of the republic and the empire, of order and civil wars. Its ruins still shape our cityscapes. Its debates still echo in our laws. Its myths and stories challenge us to think about who we are and where we came from. Rome still matters, because its republic was the first of its kind.