Its reign over the region, however, would eventually be greatly threatened by Ancient Rome and would eventually come to an ...

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally founded by Cyrus the Great in 559 BC ...

100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic ...

It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the ...

The Roman maritime weapon was then recovered using ... which were fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians between 264 and 146 BC. The latter had been the dominant force in the western ...

To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of kilometers of catacombs run underneath the town and its outskirts," says ...

In 72 BC Spartacus and his army marched north towards Gaul (the Roman term for a region covering France, the Low Countries and northern Italy). They fought off a series of attacks from Roman ...

Buccaneers at Lions, 1 p.m. ET Another playoff rematch awaits the Lions, who went to overtime to knock off the Rams at home ...

ROME, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC has been discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, the Sicily region said on Monday. The discovery ...

Tiberius was born in 42 BC, the son of Livia Drusilla and Tiberius Claudius Nero. Both his parents belonged to prominent Roman families that were very involved in the upper-class public sphere ...

At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the ...