Augustus’ record should matter especially ... deep hunger that's driving many Americans to sanctify Trump, as ancient Romans sanctified their emperors — and as Trump has sought to sanctify ...

the volcano that extinguished the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 C.E. Recently, these excavations revealed a structure ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation, it is the first time works ...

Built in 19 B.C. to a plan by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the boom in hydrology projects ordered by Augustus, its survival to the present day is a remarkable example of how ancient ...

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... their deaths and the family of Augustus traced their roots back to ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four) became legally ...

Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again” under a dictatorship carries more than a few echoes and remnants of Augustus’ and Hitler’s projects. Different though those precedents were ...