A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

Shortly before Nerva died, Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of Upper Germany. The first emperor to have ...

This was led by Agustín de Iturbide, the first emperor of Mexico. Subsequently, after the second French intervention in the country, the Second Empire took place in Mexico, which ran from 1863 to ...