Ruling the Roman Empire was a dangerous job, but some emperors still met their end in ways defying easy explanation. Here are ...

The emperor Titus Flavian completed the Colosseum and endeared ... As Edward Gibbon noted in his famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in the intervening years between the death of Domitian ...

From Gladiator 2 gladiator and chariot race to chariot race we discover how the bloody arena fueled the Roman Empire and the introduction of the new Flavian Amphitheatre or as we know it today ...

Domitian’s murder marked the end of the Flavian dynasty and changed the ... As emperor, Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to become larger than ever before. He conquered Dacia (now part of ...

The Western Roman Empire stumbled on for a few more decades ... opened with 100 days of games in AD 80 under the Latin name Amphitheatrum Flavium ('the Flavian Amphitheatre'), named for its sponsors ...

After centuries of political stability, a series of military coups roiled the empire. Roman divisions began turning ... after the Trophy of Augustus: Flavian's Bridge, marked by elegant arches ...

A study of the Roman conquest of Anatolia reveals how imperial expansion fueled economic growth but ultimately triggered ...

As the most enduring symbol of the Roman Empire and one of the most famous ... the world's largest amphitheater – once known as the Flavian Amphitheater – is well worth it, though.

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...

The Roman Empire conquered most of Britain ... which were founded in the Flavian period (A.D. 69-96) and abandoned in the third century. "It is preserved in the landscape by a remarkable stroke ...