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 ...

The two sons of Vespasian Titus and Domitian (ruled 79 – 81 AD, and 81 – 96 AD ... “Master and God” As emperor, Domitian was hated by the Roman aristocracy, largely because of his cruelty ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Now, a team at the University of Tokyo believe they have discovered the lost home of the man who founded the Roman empire ... AD. In other words, it was built after the infamous AD 79 eruption ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet ... eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD). That Pompeiian helmet ...

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 ...