Classicist and author Mary Beard sits down with Tristan Hughes in this filmed podcast for the The Ancients podcast to discuss the role of the Roman Emperor. From Julius Caesar to Romulus ...

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Remember ... Ancient Rome is cool because of gladiators, Julius Caesar — and yes, the underlying lore of strength, bravery and epic feats of ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar ... had plans for an Eastern Roman empire. Alinari / Art Resource, NY ...

Credit: Walters Art Museum, licensed under CC0 ... the mighty Rome we know today was established. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavianus in Latin, was the architect of the Roman Empire ...

As the Roman Empire expanded and became richer ... And in the first century BCE, Roman leader Julius Caesar gave his lover, Servilia (mother to his murderer Marcus Brutus), an imported black ...

However, in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar reestablished Carthage as a Roman city. Soon, the fertile regions of northern Tunisia were responsible for much of empire ... works of art and parts of a ...

Few figures in history have been as mythologised as Julius Caesar. The Roman general and dictator ... Widely regarded as a brilliant military strategist, Caesar greatly expanded the Roman Empire – ...