Caligula, Agrippina, and Nero left behind more than political intrigue—they became the subjects of ghost stories that still ...

Four golden coins of Marcus Aurelius Emperor at National Museum of Roman Art in Merida, Spain (Credit: WH_Pics/SHutterstock) The death of Marcus Aurelius marked a significant turning point in Roman ...

Finally, in 476, the Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus, who became the last Roman emperor. Sign up for Chip Chick’s newsletter and get stories like this delivered to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Capewell, 59, struck lucky with his metal detector when he landed upon a rare Roman coin valued at £6,000 ...

Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The Emperor Constantine I earned his place in history in 313 A.D. when he legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire with the Edict of Milan and gave ...

Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I promulgated an entirely new Roman code of law in November 534 A.D. His Empire, however, was ...

Mark Zuckerberg has remade his image from a dorky, democracy-destroying CEO into a cool, athletic AI visionary in the eyes of ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it is known that he traveled from his home of Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome in ...

(Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.5) Religion and the Roman Emperors In the last century before the common era, the Greek cities had fallen prey to corrupt Roman administrators and sporadic local ...

At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the ...