Augustus had outlived his preferred heirs - his two grandsons. So when he died, it was his son-in-law, Tiberius, who became emperor. Tiberius knew he was not first choice. So did everybody else ...

Caledonia, as it was known then, was a frustrating place to be a Roman commander. Rome tried three times to conquer it—and ...

Ovid’s playful poetry made him a favorite among Rome’s elite, but angered Emperor Augustus. Just as he was producing his finest work, Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) was exiled to the darkest corner of ...

Plenty of folklore swirls around two haunting, allegorical statues representing grief. The original piece, sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and shown here, peacefully sits atop the Adams ...

Less than a year and a half after Seimone Augustus received a statue outside of the PMAC, she is now joining the LSU coaching staff under Kim Mulkey, LSU announced on Monday morning. Augustus ...

Our head comes from this time, a year or two after Augustus became emperor. It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized. It's broken off ...

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R eports of mass looting at Sudan's National Museum amid the ongoing civil war have shocked the cultural heritage community.

In the fall of 2020, the student group Decolonization at Brown (DAB) lobbied to remove the statues of Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Caesar Augustus from campus. Signs decrying ancient Rome ...

Visiting the Gardens of Augustus is a great option for those who want to admire views of Capri but don't have the time to hike a great distance. The terraced, multilevel gardens overlook some of ...

Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland from the 1690s to the 1730s, could supposedly bend a horseshoe with ...

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman, 57, shares his daughter Philomena Clementine, 5½, and Augustus, 8½, with wife Mendel Corgan, who is currently expecting the couple's third baby. "This afternoon ...