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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...

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

Interestingly, the fossil was found in the same archaeological layer as a coin of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

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 ...

The coins stretch across the reign of nine emperors, each with their face depicted on the gold “solidi.” The rarest coins come from Emperor Eugenius, who had a short-lived two-year reign.