Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...

Archaeologists are excavating a Roman-era watchtower in Croatia that was "built in a strategic location" on the banks of the ...

Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot. However, some new reevaluations of primary source documents and ethnobotanical ...

Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

Rome continued on after the Western Roman Empire fell but faced war and a population crash.

During a construction project in Rome, crews found a 2,000-year-old terraced riverbank structure that likely belonged to the Roman emperor Caligula. The ruins, which overlooked the bank of the ...

A software model from Google DeepMind put a more precise date on an important Latin text credited to a Roman emperor as a ...

Online: festivaldenimes.com Trier, Germany: Founded in 16 BC during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus, Trier is considered Germany’s oldest city.

The wall is the largest Roman archaeological feature in Britain and was built to defend the northernmost limit of the Roman Empire.

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

Everyone rode bareback or with just a saddle cloth until about the fourth century A.D. Early European saddles had no stirrups ...