When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

Consider swapping Spain's most popular tourist places with some of the country's lesser known resorts and you could still ...

Imagine a board meeting so momentous that its minutes would be remembered a millennium later. That meeting took place ...

This episode explores how Roman rulers transitioned from political leaders to divine figures worshipped across the empire. While earlier episodes focused on Roman and Greek religious roots, we now ...

Want to live a happier, more purposeful life? Try thinking like a Stoic: imagine failure, embrace the process, and find ...

A group of antiquities smugglers in Turkey were just caught after trying to illegally excavate an ancient Roman mosaic — ...

Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants doing his bidding would be seductive. But in fact, Roman emperors ...

Image An arch commemorating the visit of the Roman emperor Hadrian to Gerasa in Jordan in A.D. 129 or 130.Credit...Andre Pain/EPA, via Shutterstock In the current issue of Tyche, a journal of ...

Donald Robertson's 'How to Think Like a Roman Emperor' fuses the methods of modern psychology ... Robertson introduces premeditatio malorum—a Stoic practice of visualizing worst-case scenarios. Marcus ...

He was one of Rome’s only five good emperors. A biographer wrote of Marcus Aurelius ... criminal sentences and improved the conditions of slaves. He faced the worst plague in history which decimated ...

(If not for Nero, Caligula would be rated the Roman Empire's worst emperor.) Learning how to die"It takes a lifetime to learn how to die,” wrote the Stoic philosopher Seneca, whose wisdom led to ...

In ancient times, sometimes really bad people ruled as Roman emperors— some were insane ... credence should be given to anonymous accusations because they “create the worst sort of precedent and are ...