This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius: the long-hidden villa that may mark the final resting place of ...

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He was the first Roman emperor, who took over from Julius Caesar and built an empire that would eventually stretch from the UK to Egypt, boasting on his death bed that “I found Rome built of bricks, ...

The Roman Forum under Augustus was the political and symbolic heart of a new empire. Temples, monuments, triumphal spaces, and carefully crafted architecture showed how Rome’s first emperor reshaped ...

The emperor Augustus Caesar visited Alexander the Great's tomb and, according to written accounts, broke Alexander's nose.

Old and ill, Augustus, the man who changed the fortunes and destiny of an empire by completing Julius Caesar's project, recounts the two most important phases of his life: his rise to power and his ...