When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

And since the emperor was also the head of the Roman religion ... from the rise of Augustus in 27 B.C. to the death of Constantine in A.D. 337. Since treasure hunters first discovered the villas ...

Clay McLachlan At first glance ... a monument to the emperor Augustus. Clay McLachlan Bruno Tassan wages a tireless campaign to locate and save vestiges of ancient Rome's Via Aurelia in France.

The discovery of the ancient gate suggests that the famous king of the Israelites may not have been sole ruler of his time.

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

It wasn’t the only such site in Jerusalem, but when Constantine—the first emperor of Rome to convert to Christianity—was in power, this quarry was the one exalted by early Christians as the ...