What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Her empire looked unstoppable. A third-century bust depicts Emperor Aurelian, Zenobia’s primary antagonist. Rome’s next emperor of consequence, Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, was a very different ...

A lesson from second century Marcus Aurelius. He was one of Rome’s only five good emperors. He reigned at the peak of the ...

In the first episode she looks behind the steely façade of famously philosophical, strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and ...

The newest coins date from about A.D. 175 during the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who died in 180. | Credit: Andrew Williams/Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists in the east of ...

The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own. Aurelius ...