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

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

Emperor Honorius, Placidia’s half-brother, presided in a magnificent palace overlooking the Adriatic, surrounded by luxury villas for aristocrats, splendid churches and a stadium for horse races.

Nothing intimates the slow unravelling of the Roman empire quite like Jean-Paul Laurens’ portrait of Honorius Flavius — the boy emperor consumed by a world too big for him. Titled ‘The Late ...

Regarding Roman Emperors and their fate, a significant mystery has baffled historians and archaeologists alike for centuries: Where are the tombs and remains of the most prominent Roman Emperors? This ...

Why were pants banned in the Roman Empire? As it became more common for Roman soldiers to wear pants, it also became more commonplace for the general public to don them. Roman emperors were not in ...

THE LITTLE EMPERORS (255 pp.)—Alfred Duggan—Coward-McCann ($3). One dark, wet night A.D. 406, Caius Sempronius Felix, civil governor of Roman Britain, sat shivering all alone in a ...

On January 17, 395, the Roman Empire was divided between the sons of Emperor Theodosius I into an Eastern Empire with ruler Arcadius and a Western Empire with ruler Flavius Honorius. Flavius ...

The year 410 AD marked the definitive end of Roman rule on the island, when Emperor Honorius answered the desperate plea for help from the Roman Britons in the face of Germanic invasions, mainly from ...

About two years ago, a metal detectorist unearthed a small gold pendant near the town of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It was designed to look like a Roman coin—called a solidus—that had been ...