What’s more, the empire started through violence ... If an army grew dissatisfied, the emperor was in trouble; if dissatisfaction spread further, he was finished. Civil war had brought Caesar ...

embellishments stand out on Emperor Septimius Severus’s arch in the Roman Forum. Made of travertine faced with marble, the elaborately decorated arch boasts figures including winged victories ...

I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders ... Here's Boris Johnson again: "Augustus was the first emperor of Rome, and he created from the Roman Republic an institution that ...

It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman ... the first Roman emperor, and ended with the western empire’s collapse in 476 C.E. One of ...

ANKARA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye has recovered a Roman Emperor's statue head and 48 ancient terracotta plates from Denmark, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said on Friday.

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first century – so famous that free men queued ... contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization. Given they belonged to ...