"Empires — fun historical fact: The Roman Empire was not run out of offices. They ran the world, yet there was no office. There was no office building. The Roman aristocrats worked out of their homes, and then they went to the Senate, and then [laughs] they went to their country house. There was no office building for administering the Roman Empire."

Is this "fact" correct?

Edit: It turns out utterly not. The Basilicas, for instance, were office buildings for public administration.

Why make up something like this?