the Roman Empire was vast. It stretched from Spain in the west to Britain in the north, and Syria in the east. The first five years of Nero’s reign have been described as a “golden age” for ...

Cleopatra and Marc Antony killed themselves and, finally, the Roman Empire now included the land of the pharaohs. Back home, Augustus was a hero. At the age of 32, he had become Rome’s first ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it ...