Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius.

Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

We are being tempted afresh to give our allegiance to men who wield great power and wealth in the hope that we will benefit ...

Building on a longstanding American tradition of tying its history to Rome, the right’s leaders have embraced the aesthetic: a bust of Caesar for ... years into his reign, Augustus enacted ...

"Augustus founded the imperial power of Rome on the passage of a comet during the days of the death of Caesar." Yet what we do know is that ancient Egyptians were quite attuned to both astronomy ...

This particular stone, set in place in 3 B.C. during the reign of Augustus ... When Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C., his adopted son Octavian, later renamed Augustus, rose to power and made ...