The Palace of Valerian, situated approximately 150 meters east of Shapur’s Palace, is now little more than a mass of crumbling ruins. Originally constructed to house the Roman Emperor Valerian after ...

Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

THAT JOKE?!." 11.Roman Emperor Valerian was the first Roman emperor to be taken captive in battle — by the Persian emperor Shapur I after the Battle of Edessa — and things only got worse from ...

In early 260 CE, after suffering defeat at the Battle of Edessa, the Roman emperor Valerian arranged a meeting with Shapur I the Great, the Shahanshah (‘King of Kings’) of the Sassanid Empire.

Upon its appearance in the 1st century and through the 2nd, Christians were not persecuted in all of the Roman Empire and, if so, only sporadically. It was only in the middle of the 3rd century when ...

The first was a Roman soldier who, after converting to Christianity, is said to have sought to protect Christians from the persecutions of Emperors Claudius II Gothicus and Valerian. He was ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on ...

The story of Ancient Roman Emperor Hardrian and his lover Antinous has long been the stuff of literal legend, captivating the ...

The Eastern Roman Empire had seven simultaneous emperors during the Middle Ages, between the years 1203 and 1204 AD. This was a record that the Byzantines set, living up to the most convoluted ...

Remains found in western Slovenia point to a bitter struggle for victory. Are archeologists close to resolving an enduring ...

The display, hosted by Blvgari at the Art Institute of Chicago, showcases the largest private collection of Imperial Roman ...