Researchers have now established that he was a lost Roman emperor An ancient gold coin proves ... time of his death and the story goes that the last thing he did was to write a note saying ...
known as the “Philosopher” and the last of the “Five Good Emperors,” would be succeeded by his son Commodus, whose descent into madness would be immortalized throughout the millennia (including a ...
Tiberius Claudius Nero was the second Roman Emperor, and as such the first 'outsider ... The fact remains, however, that Tiberius was considered a last resort to succeed Augustus, and his mental ...
Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor. Credit: George E. Koronaios /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army, led by Mehmed the Conqueror, seized Constantinople, ...
The Last Emperor tells the story of Pu Yi, installed as Lord Of Ten Thousand Years in 1908 at age three, only for Imperial China to become a republic a few years later. His journey takes him from ...