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 ...

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 ...

Augustus (63 BCE – 14 CE), originally named Gaius Octavius and later Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was the first Roman ...

In the 6th century AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Roman Empire experienced an extraordinary resurgence, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Battle of Strasbourg, also known as the Battle of Argentoratum, took place in 357 AD between the forces of the Roman ...