After Aurelian’s death ... which might technically make him the last Roman emperor of the West. After deposing Julius Nepos, Orestes placed his ten-year-old son Romulus Augustulus in power.

For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

The Roman Emperor Aurelian reclaimed the country only five years later in 274 CE. The fourth century CE witnessed the continued decline of the once great Roman Empire and its division into western ...

A similar tradition emerged centuries later in the Roman Empire, with the cult of Sol Invictus, or “unconquered sun,” being first introduced by the unpopular Emperor Elagabalus in A.D. 219 and then ...

It was officially renounced c.270/275 CE, when Emperor Aurelian withdrew the Roman army and administration from Dacia. The relatively short time that the Roman frontier of Dacia functioned was ...

This legislation was pivotal, as it mandated that the establishment of any new collegium required the explicit approval of the Roman Senate or, as the imperial system consolidated, the Emperor ...

Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor Elagabalis looks on as his guests are showered with rose petals in Lawrence Alma-Tadema romantic painting. The man who became infamous as ...

they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed Roman Emperor Caligula used to hold on the ship. Instead, they were vestiges of modern, everyday life from a ...

As the Roman emperor Augustus set about controlling the central Alps in the late 1st century B.C.E., a military outpost was established in his name on the banks of the Rhine. In time, with the ...