They've uncovered the remains of an 'extravagant' villa there, which they think is where Rome's first emperor Augustus died in AD 14 – 65 years before the catastrophic eruption. The villa ...

Students read of him in history. One of my own favorite biographies is Adrian Goldsworthy’s excellent "Augustus: The First Emperor of Rome." His empire, political legacy, and military ...

Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.

I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders in the history of the world - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. We have his bronze head here in the Roman galleries in the ...

The Emperor of Rome was already ... man who would return Rome’s past glory, Augustus claimed that only by restoring the traditional values that had first made Rome great could he hope to make ...

Join Tom and Dominic for the climax of their epic series on Charlemagne: the Frankish king turned emperor, who transformed ...

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The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...