What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

The Vatican Museums have unveiled its newly restored Hall of Constantine, one of its Raphael Rooms, including two newly ...

By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the ...

For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists ...

He ascended to the throne in 161 C.E., just a few years before the Marcomannic Wars (166-180 C.E.) — the Marcomanni were Germanic tribes — which would shake the Roman Empire to its foundations.

At age 14, Bassianus became emperor of Rome and assumed the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus in A.D. 218. From that moment, his short, chaotic reign would scandalize Rome. Lurid sexual ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In some ways he’s a pastiche of several Roman leaders.

In the center of one room sits Statue of an Emperor on a Throne with a Portrait of Augustus (1st Century), its complicated title related to the fact that its head was most likely added later.

Our Blue Prince guide will show you how to unlock the Throne Room and explain everything you can do with it. [Ed. note: This guide contains spoilers for Blue Prince.] Picking up the Throne Room ...

Way back in A.D. 6, during the expansion of the Roman Empire along the Danube and into present-day Germany, the future emperor Tiberius reached this spot and established a winter encampment.