The site turned out to be what Italian archeologists believe was once "the pleasure gardens" of the Roman emperor Caligula - where some 2,000 years ago all sorts of lavish parties, royal intrigue ...

they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed Roman Emperor Caligula used to hold on the ship. Instead, they were vestiges of modern, everyday life from a ...

What if Julian hadn't died on campaign? Would the Roman Empire have avoided collapse or simply delayed it? We explore a different future where Julian changes everything. NATO Army chief sounds ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis ... Tiberius had to divorce the woman he loved for one he did not; Caligula saw most of his family executed or exiled; Claudius ...

Imagine gripping the same exquisitely crafted gauntlets that adorned Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, created in 1508 and worn until his death in 1519. Each piece, meticulously designed ...

During the third century A.D., association with Christianity was still dangerous, and identifying as Christian came with great personal risk, especially as Roman emperor Nero punished Christians ...

Tiberius declared that anyone who criticized him was “reducing the greatness” of the Emperor and therefore reducing the greatness of the People of Rome, which he alleged was an act of treason. Since ...

Or so the ancient Roman writer Seneca would have us believe. A daughter of the emperor Augustus and an elite woman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Julia is infamous for her supposed sexual ...

At its zenith in 117 AD, the Roman ... emperor a large crab. Tiberius took offence and commanded that the man’s face be torn to shreds with the claws of a crab. Tiberius died at the age of 77, with ...

The young Caligula has a difficult childhood when his family members are either murdered or exiled at the hands of the emperor Tiberius. Roman Empire examines the life of Caligula from his days as ...