Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Julius Caesar’s assassins had failed to solidify ... and from what group of candidates? “After Augustus’s death, over the next two hundred years or so, and over the next two dozen emperors ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...

In the outline she submitted to her publisher, she wrote that Herod “made friends and matched wits with Pompey, Crassus, Marc Antony, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar and never came off second ...

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

“Don’t Call Him Evangelical — How to Remember Jimmy Carter’s Faith, And How Not To” was the title of the article in my email inbox. As a native Georgian, cradle roll Baptist and proud former partner ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68. Known as the “Golden House” of Emperor Nero, the Domus Aurea has never ceased to ...

Romans said Julius Caesar had become divine, as had his own son, Augustus. When Augustus died ... The scandal of death by crucifixion was almost beyond our ability to comprehend.

According to lore, she took her own life at 39 after losing her kingdom when Octavian (later Augustus) defeated her forces—although the exact nature of her death remains uncertain. The team ...