From Augustus Caesar proclaiming himself the first emperor of Rome in 31BC to the fall of the empire in 476 AD, we’ve curated a selection of the best books about Roman history below. SPQR ...

Nero's motivations for the expedition are unclear, but Egypt and Nubia represented the southern border of the Roman Empire ... her excellent history of Rome, SPQR, ancient Roman Latin shared ...

The Emperor Nero sent out a Roman expedition to find the Nile's source some 2,000 years before Victorian explorers reached ...

The rhetorical connections between Roman and American republican identity serves as a useful concept in understanding the ...

The video shows De Wever taking his infamous eagle staff with the 'SPQA' inscription (an allusion to the Latin 'SPQR' – which means 'the Senate and the People of Rome' – but referring to Antwerp ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of ...

The bronze statuettes appear to correspond to fresco fragments also found in the Roman domus in Reims in northeastern France.

The torso of the bronze sculpture depicting Septimius Severus was repatriated last year, and a Copenhagen museum has now agreed to return the head Julia Binswanger Jean Charles Blais had no idea ...