Barbarian warriors who toppled the mighty Roman Empire may have been high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.

Roman religion was split in two ... as gods and was often commemorated with temples and coins. As the Empire expanded, it took control of new countries that had their own cultures and their ...

Between 6 B.C. and A.D. 4, Roman legions ... uplands slope down to the north German plain. But it was further proof that one of the pivotal events in European history took place here: in A.D ...

Well, at that time all these places were part of the Roman Empire ... Octavius took power, becoming the first emperor, Emperor Augustus, which is when the republic became an empire.

But what exactly was the Roman Empire? The Romans actually started out in life as just a small tribe in Italy. They fought battles with local people and took over ... and then down that little ...