The Roman Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity ... The trail abounded with pink and purple wildflowers, lemon trees, thyme, oregano, and myrrh. One afternoon beside the river we came upon ...

A Roman emperor once wrote that everything we hear ... marched past,” Mahaney writes in The Warmaker. In a flurry of purple prose, he adds: “The empty water jug, like a fortress, teetered ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Beginning around 3000 years ago, Tel Shiqmona in modern-day Israel was a major centre for the production of Tyrian purple, a ...