Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

Roman generals and emperors offer important lessons about the dangers of authoritarian rule. In an attempt to always appear strong, or even to be a god, Roman rulers surrounded themselves with weak ...

The life of the Roman emperor Gera is, in some ways, a tragic tale of brotherly rivalry and parental miscalculation. He was ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

Taylor Swift’s new fascination with ancient coin jewelry shines a spotlight on Roman denarii, historical talismans—and maybe ...

Many people erroneously believe Virgil fabricated this myth. Supposedly, he created it because Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, wanted to give himself a glorious heritage. In reality, this ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

Alexander III also struggled against the internalized conflicts such as with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and headed the attempt to seal the battle over the English archbishops' election.

While the building’s foundations date to the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan (98–117 C.E.), the murals were created at the beginning of the 2nd century, archaeologists noted. Initial analysis of ...

The emperor Domitian wrote a treatise on baldness ... wounds (spiders’ webs soaked in oil and vinegar staunched them). They were so common that Roman jurists made desperate efforts to establish ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

35.6 x 47.3 cm. (14 x 18.6 in.) ...