For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they were born in the right family. What’s more, the empire started through ...

Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...

Emperor Theodosius I dies. The Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, and the Western Empire, by his son Honorius. Barbarian peoples—Swabians ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort.

a period known as the Year of the Five Emperors saw five different claimants vying for control of the Roman Empire. Commodus, who actually did fight as a gladiator for shiggles, was assassinated ...

JULIA: I’m helping out with this archaeological dig at Hadrian’s Wall in the North of England. This wall was built nearly two thousand years ago by the Romans, and the things found here tell ...