Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...

The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break ...

However, for a couple of centuries, the Holy Roman Empire encompassed a vast territory. At its peak, the empire included modern Germany, Austria, the eastern part of France, Belgium, the Czech ...

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting ...

Although both movies capture the image of tyranny described by hostile intellectuals, only the new one holds another clue ...

His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty ... that he was ruling in the best traditions of the republic, but actually was an absolute ruler creating ...

The Temple of Saturn from ancient Rome. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted the population in the Balkans. Credit: Marcok / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study, published in the ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Meilan Solly Dating to the ...

Who would inherit Charlemagne’s vast imperial lands? Trying to decide led to quarreling and warfare—and the emergence of ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...