What are sources of information about ancient Rome?

Answer 1

With the understanding that the question refers to information sources about ancient Rome, several can be identified:

A. Ancient Rome was a fairly advanced civilization during its time of being a "world power" so to speak. With that came record keeping that has shed allot of information about Rome;

B. Various books and written accounts of wars, government policies, and about Rome in general have survived either in scrolls, tablets, and monuments that depicted historical events in Rome;

C. A number of well known ancient historians have left records that also provide information. Historians such as :

1. Tacitus 2. Livy 3. Pliny the Elder 4. Dion Cassius 5. Josephus 6. Plutarch

are among the writers and historians who produced histories of early Roman times along with writing about "current events"; and

D. Archaeologists have done a substantial amount of work in excavations throughout what was the ancient Roman Empire, and have made discoveries that allow us a look at what Rome was like.