The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

Nine of the worst Roman emperors, known for madness, violence, corruption, and misrule, ultimately pushed the Roman Empire ...

The long line of ancient Roman emperors is marked by a strange pattern: Almost every exceptionally brilliant emperor was succeeded by an exceptionally mad one. The benevolent emperor Claudius, who ...

How do you keep calm in times of crisis? What do people need to be happy? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is often quoted online for answers.

Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator.

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Roman Emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus reigned from 217 to 218. He was born in Caesarea of Mauretania, a city now called Cherchell in modern Algeria.

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome From gladiators to vomitoriums, delve into Rome’s most persistent myths and find out what really happened.