Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Once a Roman trading hub on the Rhine, Augusta Raurica is Switzerland's largest archeological park and continue to produce ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

Credit: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Interestingly, the third Roman emperor, Caligula, got his nickname from the small caligae he wore as a boy among his father’s soldiers.

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

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Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

Many people erroneously believe Virgil fabricated this myth. Supposedly, he created it because Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, wanted to give himself a glorious heritage. In reality, this ...