What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago ... which began in 27 B.C.E. with the reign of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and ended with the western empire’s collapse ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

In all, roman emperors constructed dozens of villas over ... as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Louvre in Paris. Hadrian traveled frequently, and whenever he ...

Among the most striking installations at the Art Institute’s “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, is a “gallery of emperors” featuring Rome’s imperial ...