This is the last of a four-part series on Tom Holland's Persian Fire and Rubicon. Read part one, part two, and part three. The long struggle between Greek and Persian ended with an astonishing victory ...

The Roman Empire remains a cinematic staple, and here are the best movies to explore the era's scale and scandals.

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to its ...

Ash layers discovered in ice cores from Greenland and Russia suggest that around 43 B.C.E. a powerful eruption ejected large amounts of volcanic ash and sulfur compounds, subsequently dispersed by ...

Given the current deep divide in America in everything, politics, economics and race—and everywhere, urban/rural, coastal/hinterland, and the wide-ranging lack of tolerance for diversity and treatment ...

Dr. Edward Watts is a professor of history at the University of California at San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale and is the author of five books, most recently, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell ...

Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44BC and a bloody civil war followed. This brought down the Roman republic and replaced it with a monarchy led by Caesar’s nephew ...

Two thousand years ago, on August 19, 14 AD, Caesar Augustus died. He was Rome’s first emperor, having won a civil war more than 40 years earlier that transformed the dysfunctional Roman Republic into ...