Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...
Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...
His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty ... that he was ruling in the best traditions of the republic, but actually was an absolute ruler creating ...
despite keeping up the appearance that the Roman Republic remained intact. His successors continued many of these trends, While people often think about Rome as an Empire, it was actually a ...
The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break ...
The Roman empire in the century after Caracalla also offers valuable insights—and warnings—about what Americans can expect ...
The magnificent ancient city of Nikopolis is located in Epirus, the western part of the modern state of Greece.
New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.