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r/romanempire

Roman Empire and Ancient Rome. A place for lovers of ancient history, where Rome never fell. Discuss the rise and fall of emperors, legions and battles, daily life in the empire, archaeology, Roman engineering, mythology, and everything from Romulus to Romulus Augustulus. πŸ› Ave, true to Rome! πŸ› Share memes, maps, reconstructions, questions, and facts. Whether you're a scholar or a Centurion at heart, there's a place for you here. Check us out at https://roman-empire.net Founded 2012 Β· 59.3K members

59.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.9K upvotes, which works out to 132 per 1,000 members.

132peak upvotes per 1,000 members
59.3Kmembers
7.9Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

43% 26% 19%
Image 43% Gallery 26% Link 19% Video 5% Question 3% Text 3%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

The Romans built this underground palace of water beneath Constantinople

↑ 7.9K πŸ’¬ 120 gallery 2026

The Romans built things that still make modern engineers look bad!

↑ 3K πŸ’¬ 112 gallery 2026

The Roman empire in Algeria

↑ 2.8K πŸ’¬ 48 gallery 2026

Rome put one of its largest amphitheatres in a small North African town, and it still rises above the rooftops: El Djem, Tunisia

↑ 2.2K πŸ’¬ 31 gallery 2026

You can still walk straight through this 1,850 year old Roman gate

↑ 1.9K πŸ’¬ 27 gallery 2026

This Roman street of columns is almost 2 km long!

↑ 1.9K πŸ’¬ 32 gallery 2026

The size of the Hippodrome is magnificent. Here, compared to today's Istanbul.

↑ 1.8K πŸ’¬ 83 image 2026

The Romans cut this road and this arch out of the cliff.

↑ 1.8K πŸ’¬ 50 gallery 2026

Most of the aqueducts are gone, however one spectacular section still stands in Istanbul, TΓΌrkiye

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 72 image 2026

This Roman bridge in the Alps is still standing after 2,000 years

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 16 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/romanempire, in numbers

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What is r/romanempire?
r/romanempire ("Roman Empire and Ancient Rome") describes itself this way: A place for lovers of ancient history, where Rome never fell. Discuss the rise and fall of emperors, legions and battles, daily life in the empire, archaeology, Roman engineering, mythology, and everything from Romulus to Romulus Augustulus. πŸ› Ave, true to Rome! πŸ› Share memes, maps, reconstructions, questions, and facts. Whether you're a scholar or a Centurion at heart, there's a place for you here. Check us out at https://roman-empire.net. It was founded in 2012 and has 59.3K members.
How many members does r/romanempire have?
r/romanempire has about 59.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.9K upvotes, which is 132 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/romanempire?
"The Romans built this underground palace of water beneath Constantinople" reached 7.9K upvotes and 120 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/romanempire.
What subreddits are similar to r/romanempire?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/InvictaSolaris, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche.
What kind of posts do best on r/romanempire?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are image posts and 26% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/romanempire?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 17:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (951 avg upvotes), Thursday at 20:00 UTC (882 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/romanempire?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/romanempire has 1.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 221 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/romanempire, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.