Join Tom and Dominic for the climax of their epic series on Charlemagne: the Frankish king turned emperor, who transformed ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been awarded the Charlemagne Prize 2025 in recognition of her ...

Tom and Dominic reveal one of the greatest stories in all of history: the rise the Franks. Europe’s mightiest warriors, ...

Yes. It's 80. It was on Christmas Day in the year 800 that what king of the Franks was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor? -William the Conqueror? -Nah, the answer is Charlemagne. But you did a ...

To those who opposed Napoleon crowning himself as Emperor in 1804, this early ominous sign of an Augustan limb – coupled with the names of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, and Hannibal – ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

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 colorful material weighed over 5 pounds and was likely made to decorate an emperor’s palace, Italian officials said.

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of ...

Don't have an account? Create Account The emperor returns. His billionaire populism comes this time with a certain acquisitive hunger — for Greenland, for the Panama Canal, for all of Canada.