In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian ... Mary describes the young emperor in waiting as ‘over-juvenile’: “He talks about sitting down and having a nice cuddle ...

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 catastrophic defeat and capture in 260 of Emperor Valerian by the ... Palmyra had prospered since coming under Roman control in the first century A.D. Sitting at the crossroads between the ...

Time for the Romans was divided differently, with the Kalends, the Ides at the start and middle of each month, respectively, and the Nones sitting between them. With the intention of maintaining and ...