This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of inscriptions from the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying explanatory notes, ...

Trajan held onto power until 117 AD. His civilized rule set the tone for future generations; his expansion of the Roman Empire made it a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic melting pot that is still ...

A gold artifact that may be an offering to an ancient deity has been found at a Roman fortress in Georgia, suggesting that ...

Roman coins commemorated his triumphs and conquests. When he died in 117, his territory stretched from the Persian Gulf to Scotland. He bequeathed the empire to his adopted son—a 41-year-old ...

The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar ... Rome’s expansion to England in 117 C.E. brought enslaved people ...

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has finally been found off the Italian coast ...

The gold object features an inscription dedicated to an ancient deity who was particularly revered by soldiers.

A volume in the Routledge series “Aspects of Classical Civilisation,” this is an essential book for any serious student of the Roman Empire, this will also prove interesting to armchair historians.

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

The Segovia aqueduct is a bold legacy of Rome's presence in Spain, though no one knows who or when it was built it.

Russell Crowe is set to wage war on the Roman Empire once more, with the Gladiator Oscar-winner set to lead the cast of the ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...