President Trump’s actions are more far-reaching than Julius Caesar’s — and they have met less resistance than in Caesar's ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The barons in thirteenth century England put a collar on King John and forced him to respect the limits on his power. It’s not clear if the courts and the political system today can do the same for ...

Soon general panic set in. “The whole army was in the most appalling disorder ... their commander was the greatest soldier since Julius Caesar. The first stages of the Waterloo campaign ...

Conquerors like Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar, whom Truman had read about ... Stripes over the American sector of Berlin. Speaking without notes, Truman told the crowd of American soldiers ...

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra and Rex Harrison as Julius ... Caesar’s child (some time between 47 and 44 BC Cleopatra gave birth to a son whom she named Ptolemy Caesar, or Caesarion]. But, instead, of ...