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Nine of the worst Roman emperors, known for madness, violence, corruption, and misrule, ultimately pushed the Roman Empire ...
The Emperor in August, a remake of the 1967 classic Japan's Longest Day, about the end of World War II, comes out a day after Jurassic World.
THE luxurious but tragedy-stricken villa where the first Roman emperor, Augustus, is believed to have died has been unearthed after 2,000 years. Researchers from the University of Tokyo say there ...
A software model from Google DeepMind put a more precise date on an important Latin text credited to a Roman emperor as a demonstration of its capabilities.
Emperor Augustus' frescoed palace atop Rome's Palatine Hill, one of the city's famous seven hills, will partially reopen to the public March 2 after decades of restoration work, officials said Monday.
What we will hear from Emperor Akihito on August 15 will be equally—if not more—important than the Abe Statement. By Yuki Tatsumi. August 14, 2015. Credit: State Department photo by William Ng / ...
The Emperor of Rome was already the most powerful man on earth, but this wasn’t enough. Augustus wanted a piece of heaven too: he was determined that his people would see him as their supreme ...
There’s a well-mannered, tea-drinking Oxbridge elephant in the room with any modern biography of the Roman emperor Augustus — and Adrian Goldsworthy, also the author of the best-selling ...
Restoring of the several frescoed rooms, which were once inhabited by the emperor and his family cost a reported €2.5 million ($3.22 million). They were reopened to mark the 2,000th anniversary ...
Rome, a city that thinks in millennia, is going through a bout of “Augustus fever” to mark the 2,000th anniversary of the death of its first emperor, who left his mark on Rome and Western ...