Remains found in western Slovenia point to a bitter struggle for victory. Are archeologists close to resolving an enduring ...

First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor – he was just a really powerful Roman who started the Empire. He was a great Roman general, a very popular leader and he was a bit of a ...

with monarchs who adopted government models inspired by the imperial Roman organization. The Kingdom of the Danes, considered the first Scandinavian kingdom, emerged around AD 450. Its centralized ...

First, it tells us that Pontius Pilate was ... rose to its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire. Herod was a successful client king, which meant that as long ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

The eight videos in this series explore the Roman Empire, beginning with the story of Romulus and Remus and the myth of the founding of Rome in 753 BCE and ending with the withdrawal of the Romans ...

He bequeathed the empire to his adopted son—a 41-year ... even in official portraits, a first for a Roman emperor. He spent more than half of his 21-year reign in the provinces and visiting ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers ... The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty years. Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried ...