Mark Merrony, an archaeologist at Oxford, told Fox News Digital the Pembrokeshire Roman fort could have held 1,000 auxiliary ...

Augustus was seen as a descendant of the gods who would go on to redefine authority. New research posits that his rule paved ...

Canadian designer Daniel Voshart created lifelike portraits of Roman emperors that make ancient rulers look surprisingly familiar.

The spearhead, one could say, of Roman expansion I think most certainly was as much economically based as it was militarily ...

The video explains how Ricimer used strategy and court politics to influence late Western Roman emperors. It connects his ...

When Emperor Theodosius died in 395 AD, the Roman Empire was divided and ruled by his two sons. From then on, there was never again a single emperor who ruled the entire empire, and it is said that ...

An archaeologist has uncovered an ancient fortification linked to Magnus Maximus, a fourth-century ruler who is immortalized in the medieval "Mabinogion" stories as Macsen Wledig ...

A stunning marble torso of a Roman emperor made headlines at an auction, fetching an astounding $34.26 million, breaking ...

Being a Roman emperor was a risky job. It wasn't unusual for emperors to be killed by usurpers wanting to remove them from power. They also faced many health challenges, such as death from epidemics ...

Roman emperors faced a high risk of violent death in their first year of rule, but the risk slowly declined over the next seven years, according to an article published in the open access journal ...

Ancient Rome was a dangerous place to be an emperor. During its more than 500-year run, about 20 percent of Rome's 82 emperors were assassinated while in power. So, what led to their downfalls?

Mark Zuckerberg has joked that he is "not sure" how often he thinks about the Roman Empire, despite naming his daughters after Roman emperors. "Not sure if I think about the Roman Empire too much," ...