Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

SUMMARY Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded to power together in 161 CE, as the adopted heirs of Antonius Pius. At the ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero's grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, have unearthed an extremely rare and ...

Emperor Hadrian (76 CE – 138 CE) was the Roman emperor from 117 CE to 138 CE, succeeding his adoptive father, Emperor Trajan. Born as Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, Hispania (modern-day Spain), ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

He became an Emperor in the year 37 at the age of just ... He was declared a public enemy by the Roman Senate and committed suicide, marking the end of his dynasty. Now, archaeologists exploring ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...