Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world.

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Sitting in Tom Holland’s study, I am puzzled. Looking around, I can see a suit of chain mail (a present from his brother and fellow popular historian James Holland), a mounted psittacosaurus fossil ...

LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly ...

Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of ...

The most famous gay couple of antiquity… … were possibly really just close platonic friends. Whether Alexander the Great and his close advisor and bodyguard Hephaestion did indeed share a bed is a ...

London's first Roman basilica has been finally found - hidden underneath the basement of an unassuming office block near ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Born Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, Caesarion was the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII. His birth symbolized ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...