A powerful military commander born in Spain, Trajan was very good to his imperial subjects—but woe to the foreigners who opposed him. A marble statue of Trajan, who ruled Rome from A.D. 98 until ...

Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job. ... As emperor, Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to become larger than ever before.

The Career of the Emperor Trajan. As the title suggests Nicholas Jackson’s Trajan: Rome’s Last Conqueror, from Greenhill Books, is about the life and achievements of one of the greatest Roman emperors ...

The emperor gave the city 30,000 denarius, an ancient Roman currency, Şimşek said. That would be equivalent to about 300,000 Turkish lira, or $53,000 today, he added.

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral up around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan's Column. It's a ...

During his 19-year reign, from 98 to 117 AD, the soldier-emperor Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to its largest extent, a vast region that included much of Europe, North Africa, ...

Considered as the first shopping mall in history, Trajan’s Market is a huge semicircular mass of brick, part of which remains buried under modern buildings and paradoxically may have had very little ...