Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

The Emperor of Rome was already the ... would see him as their supreme spiritual leader. Roman religion had many gods and spirits and Augustus was keen to join their number as a god himself.

On his 1993 album American Caesar, the soothsayer Iggy Pop conjured the second coming of Donald Trump: “People of America/ I ...

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have unearthed an ancient villa from beneath volcanic ash that they believe may have been used by the first Roman emperor, Augustus (63 B.C.—A.D. 14).

A metal detectorist from Leicestershire has unearthed a “once-in-a-lifetime” hoard of 50 Roman coins. David Dunn, 42, a ...

The Roman emperors held vast wealth and control in the ancient world. But while many people wanted the title, it wasn't a great job: A 2019 study calculated that almost two-thirds of Roman ...