In other words, who would be the best Roman Emperor in history? The Roman Empire was one of the most influential civilizations, profoundly shaping the West today. From its foundation in 27 BC under ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire. Emily Briffett is joined by historian Dr Adrian Goldsworthy to look back at five of the most ...

"But the Via Aurelia is a largely lost piece of Roman history. Bruno has done much to keep it alive and to protect the little that's left." A series of military triumphs paved the way for ...

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he reign supreme?

“There are huge battlefields in Germany where weapons were found,” said Michaela Binder, who led the excavation. “But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” According to ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons ...

The remains could represent the start of the metropolis’s history, the team said — theorizing that a Roman defeat could have led to the expansion of a small military base a few miles away.

Throughout, I have tried to use only Latin for the names of people and places with spelling contemporary to the epoch. The defeat of the Carthaginian Resistance forces by the Roman army in 202 BCE was ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a ...

The Framers of our Constitution drew on ancient Greek and Roman history when they established our republic and sought to protect it from the inevitable threat of dictatorship. When they discussed ...