By 79 AD, Vespasian was dying, but his sense of humor remained intact. "Oh dear!" he joked, mocking the Roman tendency to turn dead emperors into gods, "I think I'm becoming a god." Vespasian had ...

In other words, it was built after the infamous AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii ... the lost home of the man who founded the Roman empire. And it has been lying under a blanket of Vesuvian ...

In AD 79 Agricola, the Roman governor of Britannia ... However, the tide was slowly turning against the Roman Empire. As Rome weakened the Picts became bolder. In 360 AD they allied with the ...