Messalina’s true scandals were that she overstepped the defined boundaries of an empress’s appropriate place and engaged too openly in the cruel politics of the Roman imperial system ...

Palatine Hill was the location of choice for imperial residences. The image shows the Palatine ruins from the former site of the Circus Maximus, the largest hippodrome in the Roman world.

Julia Domna can stake a claim to being one of the most influential women of the Roman Empire. Aside from perhaps the ...

Female members of the imperial family, the wives, daughters - and particularly - mothers of Roman emperors are some of the most colourful characters of Rome in the early imperial age; as described ...

And this historical drama is actually based on a totally true story of a young girl and the imperial ... child of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa ...

Designed in the Byzantine style, it features two gold and silver half-spheres, symbolizing the eastern and western Roman empires ... from the Imperial Scepter of Russian Empress Catherine the ...