New scientific testing reveals that the marble slab covering Emperor Otto I’s tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral did not come from Greece.

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

Just a couple of miles from Mérida in Spain, Proserpina Dam was constructed during Roman rule around AD 100, with various ...

Rome has opened two subway stations. One is deep beneath the Colosseum that mixes the modernity of high-tech transport with ...

Taylor Swift’s at-home loungewear is exactly what you’d expect 'Heroic' bystander who wrestled gun from Bondi Beach attacker ...

Want to walk in the footsteps of Roman emperors? Now you can because an ancient secret passageway in Rome's Colosseum used exclusively by emperors is now open to the public for the first time since ...

The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...

Bust of Augustus, celebrated as Rome’s savior, whom Tacitus recast as a master of propaganda—masking autocracy as duty, trading liberty for the Pax Romana, and setting the template for modern power.