An unexpected coup against the Empire was nearly successful, especially since Palpatine nearly died. But the one thing no one ...

When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?

Mughal Emperor Akbar, the third Mughal king, once controlled a mind-boggling 25 percent, or one-fourth of the total global ...

Nobody expected Claudius to become emperor. Although he was the only surviving ... This was the most important addition to the empire since the time of Augustus. Even this success, however ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...