His brother Domitian, however, returned Rome to tyranny and fear. Vespasian’s eldest son, Titus, was already a successful politician and general before his father became emperor. He had seen ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the ...

Finally, he wasted no time establishing his dynasty, insisting that his two sons – Titus and Domitian ... he joked, mocking the Roman tendency to turn dead emperors into gods, "I think ...

Opposing an established government is part of the political game, and democratic systems consider it normal. However, where ...

Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, and Scorpus are based on real people in Those About to Die. In history, Vespasian was the last Roman emperor to rule in the Year of the Four Emperors. Vespasian was a ...

Did you know that over four centuries, the Colosseum saw 400,000 people die in gladiatorial games? This shows the huge scale of violence and the Colosseum’s deep impact on ancient Roman culture. Built ...

Around 1480 a few excavators began digging on the Oppian Hill and found what they thought were the ruins of the Baths of Titus ... few structures in Rome that bear the emperor’s name.

Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus (Trevor Peacock) returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora (Dame Eileen Atkins) and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead ...

This is the lower left hand corner of a Roman commemorative stone ... He has reconstructed the whole inscription as "For the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father ...

In 80 AD, Emperor Titus opens the Colosseum with 100 days of spectacular games, including one of the most famous gladiatorial matches in Rome's history. After forming a close bond in their ...