As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

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

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Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

After a pope dies – or in very rare cases, resigns – the Catholic Church chooses its next leader through an ancient electoral ...