The emperor mushroom, Agaricus julius, was discovered in Colorado in 2016, after long being mistaken for the closely related ...

One of the most famous objects in the British Museum is a bronze head of the Roman emperor Augustus that exudes charisma, ...

After the death of the emperor Tiberius in 37 CE, the Roman state was jubilant. The old man was considered depraved, distant, ...

By day, she was the emperor’s wife, the most admired woman in Rome, who lived in a palace and wanted for nothing. By night, ...

Colorado may soon join seven other states in having its own state mushroom — thanks to the work of a group of students from ...

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

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

Among the reasons for the Empire's failure was the leadership at the very top. From around 200-400 AD, the later Emperors frequently rose to and fell from office, with struggles for power becoming ...

A haul of more than 400 coins from the early Roman era has been discovered by two metal detector enthusiasts near Utrecht.

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero's grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, have unearthed an extremely rare and ...

When Tiberius was a child, his mother divorced his father and married Augustus, the man who became Rome’s first emperor. From an early age, Tiberius was trained to be a leader, studying military ...

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