The gold coin was discovered over 300 years ago in Transylvania, but up until recently it was kept tucked away in a museum ...

The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ordered a subject to drive a knife through ...

Construction of the Great Wall of China started during the reign of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who ruled from ...

Early in A.D. 212 the Roman Senate was honoring the 24 year old Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus, more commonly known as “Caracalla” from a style of cloak that he ...

The 64-year-old emperor, who is fond of mountain climbing, and Empress Masako are on a state visit to Britain. On the morning of June 25, the imperial couple attended a welcoming ceremony at the ...

The 64-year-old emperor attended Oxford's Merton College in 1983-1986, while his wife Empress Masako, 60, studied international relations in the late 1980s down the road at Balliol College.

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice. She was taken by priests to Cuzco where she met the Inca Emperor, and on her return ...