Few academics are as good as Mary Beard at unpicking the appeal of our ancestors. In ‘Emperor of Rome', she examines the Romans' remarkable past and connects their lives and stories to the present.

Caracalla was not the creator of the Roman baths as we know them today, but he was the one who perfected them and ordered the construction of the ones in Rome. Agrippina, Nero, Domitian ...

After a long period of civil conflict, Rome saw its governance pass from a republican system to one under the mastery of an individual, the Emperor, whose position was meant to embody the ...

Emperor’s frescoed rooms unveiled for first time in Rome after restoration work. LAVISHLY frescoed rooms in the houses of the Roman Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia are opening for the first ...

Rome experienced ... a beautiful Pompeian woman, appeared on the scene. In A.D. 62, when Poppaea became pregnant several months into an adulterous relationship with Nero, the emperor decided ...

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This new Caligula, re-edited by Thomas Negovan using 96 hours of recently discovered footage, remains a bizarre mix of pretension, melodrama, historic liberties and pornography, punctuated by ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey dating to the fourth century, when Emperor Constantius II ruled. Archaeologists have unearthed a fourth-century ...

A LOCAL metal detectorist has unearthed a unique Roman coin displaying Emperor Hadrian whilst at Carlisle’s Roman Bathhouse dig site in the Cricket Club grounds. The coin, part of the ...

An emperor penguin that appeared on an Australian beach journeyed over 2,000 miles from its native Antarctica in what could be the first appearance of the species on the continent. The penguin ...

An extremely rare silver denarius of the Roman Emperor Carausius is expected to fetch up to £8,000 when it is sold at auction. The coin was discovered in June by Mike Clark, 73, in a field in ...