Breaking The Mystery: 7 Amazing Things You Don't Know About Ancient Rome

IndigoCoyote Updated: 2025-07-20

What more can be said about ancient Rome at this point? They spend almost all of high school trying to teach you the ins and outs of their society, politics, and architecture, mostly to the point where the average student just doesn't care anymore. We knew that society better than our own.
However, there are still some fun facts that they tend to leave out of the classroom. Let's take a look at some facts about ancient Rome that might reignite your interest in this topic.

Founded by two brothers raised by a wolf

Well, I'll admit you probably knew that fact. Rome was founded by two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a she-wolf. As always in Roman mythology, they ended up disagreeing about who would rule this new city so Romulus killed Remus and named the city after himself.