What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church's first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

A stunning study of Octavian’s victory monument in Nicopolis, Greece, reveals how massive ships gave him the edge in the 31 ...

Donald Trump, the Roman emperor of reality TV Donald Trump has directed plenty of casual cruelty toward his opponents and detractors in the US as well, performing offensive imitations and hurling ...

His shrewd, ambitious mother kept telling Otto that he would one day be Emperor. Fanatically religious, she went to church five times a day, and entrusted Otto’s education to three Benedictine ...

Aurangzeb's tomb is located in Khuldabad, a town near Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Unlike the grand mausoleums of other Mughal emperors, Aurangzeb's tomb is a simple structure, reflecting his wishes to ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

At its height it was also the largest building of its type north of the Alps, showing the importance of London within the Roman Empire. A reconstruction of how the basilica and forum may have looked ...