idge fort near Stopfenreuth occurred between 170 and 180 CE during the Marcomannic Wars. This period was marked by conflict ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavianus in Latin, was the architect of the Roman Empire. Born on September 23, 63 BC, he became the first Roman emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his ...

He was not an emperor, but he belonged to the elite at the time of the Republic, and his rank allowed him to set the foreign policy agenda for Republican Rome. He consolidated the expansionist ...

Archaeologists solved the mystery of the ruins of the Desolate Castle, determining that the mysterious site on the Danube ...

That is why considering what undid the Roman Republic is useful today—if we can learn from the Romans’ mistakes. Augustus was Rome’s first emperor. In so becoming, he dismantled the republic ...

The restoration of a 26.5-meter-tall (86.94-foot-tall), 2,000-year-old lighthouse commissioned by Roman Emperor Nero in the ...

The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

Forget the Colosseum and what you've seen in the Gladiator film franchise - the latest evidence of ancient Roman brutality ...