What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

ANALYSIS: When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems, ...

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No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

While the media once pulled spectacular pranks on April 1, they now have to tread carefully with fake news. A look at some ...

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

These are the cowardly acts of authoritarians who differ from Putin not in their nature but only in their extent. They haven’t thrown anybody out of a fifth-story window yet that we know of, though we ...

2. In France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and French-speaking areas of Canada and Switzerland, the April Fools’ Day tradition is called “April Fish” or “Poisson d’Avril”, where pranksters stick ...

As political commentators scramble to comprehend just what is happening in the United States, one ready parallel keeps coming up. There is a parallel between ancient Rome and America’s modern republic ...

While this trend's popularity spread quickly on social media, it had other impacts as well; it launched a 1,900-year-old ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...