The two sons of Vespasian Titus and Domitian (ruled 79 – 81 AD, and 81 – 96 AD respectively) could not have been more different as emperors. Although Titus had a reputation for ruthlessness ...

Built during the reign of Emperor Domitian in the 1st century CE, these monumental warehouses were intended to store spices arriving from Egypt, Arabia, and India, including pepper, cardamom ...

Roman emperor Domitian is believed to have put on a sea battle in the Colosseum in 85 AD, for instance. The "Gladiator II" naumachia raises the stakes by having sharks, although that is unlikely ...

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact ...

The results were remarkably successful. Nerva became emperor immediately after Domitian’s murder in 96 AD. He had a lifetime of service to Rome and its emperors, and had served as consul twice ...

They carried a short, curved dagger called a sica, and a small shield. In the first century AD, the emperor Domitian, a fan of the murmillo gladiators, is said to have had a man thrown to the dogs ...

New emperor Domitian tasks him with adding in a complex network of underground tunnels: the hypogeum.