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

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 ...

The story of Emperor Nero is one of the most infamous in the history of the Roman Empire filled with ambition, excess, and controversy. This video traces Nero’s rise to power, key events of his reign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.