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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...