Marcus Aurelius has been acknowledged as a sage. But his reign was marked as much by military affairs as it was by philosophy ...

NEARLY 2000 years after the first legionary trudged on to Scottish soil, the Roman Empire’s attempted conquests of Scotland ...

In the December 30 episode of The Young and the Restless, Victor gives Michael a kind and thoughtful gift. But of course, there’s something behind it. Do you think The Mustache has really learned the ...

An intensive research project carried out over recent years by the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology of ...

Notorious for hedonism and sacrilege, the excesses of Elagabalus were too much, even for the Roman Empire. Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor Elagabalis looks on as his guests are ...

Do you know that one single empire once ruled much of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East? You might be surprised to learn that the Roman Empire lasted for centuries, shaped laws we still use ...

Ridley Scott’s epic historical sequel, Gladiator II promises to be a dramatic and spectacular, if not particularly historically accurate roller-coaster ride through the Roman Empire. And while there ...

20:05, Thu, Dec 25, 2025 Updated: 20:57, Thu, Dec 25, 2025 Pompeii is probably the most famous archaeological site in the world. At the very least, it's in the upper echelons of places ofhistorical ...

If the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, two millennia ago, only wanted a complete set of data about the population in Judea, the straightforward approach would have been to send enumerators there to ...

King for a day? How about emperor for two months? Between A.D. 260 and 274, a succession of generals ruled over the Gallic Empire, a breakaway state from the Roman Empire that included the provinces ...

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...