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On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

From the engineering genius of innovative new-builds to some of the planet’s oldest structures, here’s where to find the ...

The "Five Good Emperors" of the Roman Empire (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) ruled from 96 to 180 CE, an era often regarded as Rome's golden age. This period is ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In some ways he’s a pastiche of several Roman leaders.

The Eastern Roman Empire had seven simultaneous emperors during the Middle Ages, between the years 1203 and 1204 AD. This was a record that the Byzantines set, living up to the most convoluted ...

Build your own authentic empire in Pax Augusta, a Roman city building game. ... As with any city building game, it's not going to be easy - especially when the Emperor comes knocking.

It may seem strange that a second-century C.E. book about Roman emperors is landing on today’s bestseller charts, but there several reasons why people in 2025 are still fascinated by ancient Rome. “We ...

In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire.

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

The Remorse of Nero after Killing His Mother (John William Waterhouse). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Around 65 CE, Seneca himself (who had been the emperor’s tutor) and his nephew Lucan ...