When the Roman emperor Hadrian ascended to power in A.D. 117, he inherited a state in crisis. Trajan, his predecessor, had stretched the Roman Empire to its furthest reaches through aggressive ...

Memoirs of Hadrian, a seminal novel about the life and death of a Roman emperor, is becoming a TV series. The 1951 novel, which explores the life of Hadrian from his childhood through his ascent to ...

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 had ...

Any city awaiting a visit from a Roman emperor would have thrummed with anticipation, but for Athenians in A.D. 124, the expectation was even greater. Hadrian, whose realm stretched from Britain to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The "secret" journeys of Emperor Hadrian have been discovered on a ...

Villa Adriana, or Hadrian's Villa, is a Unesco World Heritage Site in Tivoli, Italy, that spans 200 acres and was built around 210 A.D. by Roman leader Hadrian. DeAgostini / Getty Images Talk about ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A fragment of a stone engraved with an inscription dedicated to the Roman emperor Hadrian was discovered in Jerusalem. The existence of the 2,000-year-old stone fragment, discovered ...

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