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

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 ...

The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques.

After a four-year engagement, Princess Mako, the niece of 61-year-old Emperor Naruhito, married her long-time boyfriend, Kei Komuro on Tuesday. And because Japan’s imperial law strips women of ...

For tens of thousands of years, across all the long eons from the birth of the first man to the coming of the Emperor, ...

Show more Following the bloody assassination of the twenty-eight year old Emperor Caligula, Rome found herself without a leader. Who then should fill the enormous power vacuum left by the death of ...

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 ...