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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Everybody may know the name “Attila the Hun,” but nobody knows where he’s buried. Finding him ...

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.

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 ...

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.