Augustus had outlived his preferred heirs - his two grandsons. So when he died, it was his son-in-law, Tiberius, who became emperor. Tiberius knew he was not first choice. So did everybody else.

Kousser said the first and most mundane reason so many statues get beheaded is that the neck is a natural weak point ...

taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had become emperor, a mutiny broke out among legions in ...

Now, an Ancient Roman's digital footprint is in the headlines too. Authorities unveiled the 13-metre-high structure on Tuesday: a replica of a statue of ... was proclaimed emperor in York.

A bronze statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Türkiye in the 1960s through illegal excavations, has been officially returned to Türkiye, a Turkish official announced.

Voice 1: Emperor Constantine was a ruler from the fourth century who embraced Christianity and helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire. Now, he has a reconstructed statue befitting his ...