Now, educated and wealthy men from all over the Empire are eligible for the highest office. 180 AD - Pax Romana ends. The death of Marcus Aurelius marks the end of the remarkable period of Pax ...

Caledonia, as it was known then, was a frustrating place to be a Roman commander. Rome tried three times to conquer it—and ...

of rivers and canals Map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the empire in 200 CE It calculates the route based on the season, or mode of transport chosen - and ...

In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian of the ... strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and curiously anxious ...

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled from 161 to 180 AD, and developed a reputation for being the ideal wise leader Plato termed the "philosopher king." Marcus has remained relevant for 1,800 ...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus, ruled the Roman empire for just four years from 218AD to his assassination, aged 18, in 222AD. He became an increasingly controversial figure ...

Nevertheless, these unprepossessing ruins, easily missed as you drive up the Red Sea coast, were the landing point for generations of Indian merchants travelling to the Roman Empire and were once ...

Oliver Reed is charismatic as Proximo. Richard Harris is utterly compelling as Marcus Aurelius, the dying Roman Emperor who guilts Maximus into doing the right thing. Russell Crowe as Maximus is ...

The Roman items were found by a detectorist in ... stamped with the head of Faustina the Younger, wife of emperor Marcus Aurelius, dating to about AD170 The two items, found by a metal detectorist ...

"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see," Marcus writes. There is nothing to be gained from letting your mind live separate from ...