A 2,000-year-old ring that was unearthed 50 years ago near Jerusalem may well have been worn by Pontius Pilate ...

PEERING back 2,000 years to the age of Jesus isn’t exactly easy – but rare objects from those times solve the mystery of what ...

A 2,000-year-old ring discovered near Jerusalem may well have been worn by the man who condemned Jesus to death.

Tiberius eventually left Rome altogether for ... We’ll give him this - Maximinus Thrax has probably the coolest name of any ...

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius.

But the figure who most thoroughly shaped Capri’s fate was Augustus’ successor, the emperor Tiberius. In A.D. 27, at the age of 69, Tiberius moved to Capri to govern the enormous Roman empire ...

In all, roman emperors constructed dozens of villas over ... Several generations earlier, Tiberius had retired to villas constructed by his predecessor Augustus. Installing a regent in Rome ...

Augustus had outlived his preferred heirs - his two grandsons. So when he died, it was his son-in-law, Tiberius, who became emperor. Tiberius knew he was not first choice. So did everybody else.

taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had become emperor, a mutiny broke out among legions in ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on Roman politics of the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus and how the reaction to them helped destabilise the Republic.