Toronto is now in the phase of the Senate when it was being ignored. No emperors in the city of Rome to taunt senators.

A common facet of both films is an allegory for entertainment modern audiences crave, as did their predecessors in Ancient Rome, and the unhinged and volatile behavior of Caesar sitting in ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

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 ...

When it comes to Roman Emperors and their fate, a big mystery appears that has baffled historians and archaeologists alike for centuries.

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 ...

After his victory at the battle of Actium, Augustus was a hero to the Roman ... to rule as emperor. He made the most of a rare appearance by Halley's Comet to claim that Caesar was sitting among ...

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 ...

At this point history took a sharp turn. Shortly before Nerva died, Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...