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

After 14 years as emperor, the Senate declared Nero as a public enemy. He fled and committed suicide. Augustus' dynasty was over and Rome descended again into civil war.

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

because statues like this were set up in cities all over the Roman Empire. This is how Augustus wanted his subjects to see him. And although every inch a Roman, he wanted them to know that he was ...

She noted that the site corresponds with writings by the Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, who recorded that Augustus died ... many beautiful marble statues and other artifacts.