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

Today in the year 1449, the last emperor of the Romans was crowned in the small town of Mystras in Greece, far away from the ...

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the official language.

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 ...

A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d. Archaeologists unearthed foundations (in box, above right) of a late second- or early ...

Take this historical Kings quiz to test your knowledge of influential monarchs, from Louis XIV 'The Sun King' to Alexander ...

King for a day? How about emperor for two months? Between A.D. 260 and 274, a succession of generals ruled over the Gallic Empire, a breakaway state from the Roman Empire that included the provinces ...

The time has nearly arrived. Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United States will begin praying a new English translation of the Mass.