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.

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

It might come as no surprise, then that among the books he’s recommended is I, Claudius by British writer Robert Graves - a ...

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.

In fact, Imperial Rome was designed specifically to impress both its citizens and visitors: the first emperor, Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14), began an ambitious beautification program, which led to ...

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 ...