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When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
The Pax Romana, kickstarted by Rome’s first emperor Augustus after his defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 B.C.E., ...
In fact, Imperial Rome was designed specifically to impress both its citizens and visitors: the first emperor, Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14), began an ambitious beautification program, which led to ...
The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was Pontifex Maximus. But at some point, the emperors in the Roman Empire also ...
Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.
What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus ...
The conversion—one of the last projects that the Iraqi-British architect worked on before dying—wraps a landmarked structure in Rome with a futuristic second skin.