The booty changed the landscape of Rome. To commemorate the victory, Trajan commissioned a forum that included a spacious plaza surrounded by colonnades, two libraries, a grand civic space known ...

It stretches through parts of the Forum of Trajan and the Forum of Augustus, making it an integral part of the Roman Forum complex. The road was constructed between 1924 and 1932 and underwent ...

Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job. The results were remarkably successful. Nerva became emperor immediately after Domitian’s ...

In 110 AD, Trajan sent Pliny to Bithynia (part of present-day Turkey) to investigate corruption there. He appears to have died a few years later. His lasting fame, however, comes from the nine ...