Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

The absence of the staying hand of moral sanity -- especially among our political and technological leadership -- is taking us, all of us, to a new and anxious place. Zygmunt Bauman, who died in ...

Nothing intimates the slow unravelling of the Roman empire quite like Jean-Paul Laurens’ portrait of Honorius Flavius — the boy emperor consumed by a world too big for him. Titled ‘The Late ...

Regarding Roman Emperors and their fate, a significant mystery has baffled historians and archaeologists alike for centuries: Where are the tombs and remains of the most prominent Roman Emperors? This ...

It feels a bit like in 410 AD when Roman emperor Honorius informed the Britons that they were on their own and Rome could no longer protect them.

It feels a bit like in 410 A.D when the Roman emperor, Honorius, informed the Britons that they were on their own and Rome could no longer protect them. In less than a month, Trump and now Hegseth ...

All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix’s bolder friends was that the Emperor Honorius in Rome had suffered a military disgrace—and that the imperial purple beckoned to the strong.

On January 17, 395, the Roman Empire was divided between the sons of Emperor Theodosius I into an Eastern Empire with ruler Arcadius and a Western Empire with ruler Flavius Honorius. Flavius ...

About two years ago, a metal detectorist unearthed a small gold pendant near the town of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It was designed to look like a Roman coin—called a solidus—that had been ...

The piece of jewelry copies the imagery and inscriptions found on coins from the time of emperor Honorius, ruler of the Western Roman Empire from A.D. 393 to 423.