In the early reign of Tiberius, the death of Germanicus left Drusus the Younger as Rome’s fragile heir, but real power increasingly flowed through Lucius Aelius Seianus, the ambitious prefect of the ...

The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ...

Tiberius became emperor not because he wanted power but because Augustus engineered the succession and every alternative heir died. Forced to divorce the woman he loved and pushed into political duty, ...

An ancient Roman city left untouched for centuries holds some of the most compelling evidence that the stories of the Bible ...

People have questioned the Bible's accuracy for ages. While some view each phrase as a sacred revelation, others argue that ...

We've just celebrated Christmas with its usual flurry of Nativity plays, where Herod is typically the villain. But did you ...

In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an ...

Do you know that one single empire once ruled much of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East? You might be surprised to learn that the Roman Empire lasted for centuries, shaped laws we still use ...

Notorious for hedonism and sacrilege, the excesses of Elagabalus were too much, even for the Roman Empire. Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor Elagabalis looks on as his guests are ...