The toga has long been one of the most recognisable symbols of ancient Rome, so why have we been getting its history wrong?

His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty that, over the next century, would transform Rome, for better and worse. The man who would become one of Rome ...

Herod ruled from 37 B.C.E. to 4 B.C.E. Quite a ... to its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire. Herod was a successful client king, which meant that as long as ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

“Although Roman rule ended around 2,000 years ago ... Expanding the study to other regions influenced by the Roman Empire, ...

The Eastern Roman Empire had seven simultaneous emperors during the Middle Ages, between the years 1203 and 1204 AD. This was ...

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. The emperor ruled over the Roman Empire, a bit like a king. Find out below about some of the emperors who influenced Britain.

AN obsession with rules and regulations is eroding the foundations of society, leaving the West facing a collapse akin to ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the locals adjusted their business operations ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...