Ruling from 63 B.C.E. to 14 C.E. the emperor prominently displayed prehistoric items in his Capri villa, claiming they ...

Roman Empire's greatest mystery solved after archaeologists locate founder's burial site The great Emperor's whereabouts had for thousands of years been unknown, but archaeologists working at the ...

The emperor Augustus Caesar visited Alexander the Great's tomb and, according to written accounts, broke Alexander's nose.

Ancient writing is so riddled with holes, from Greek poet Sappho's fragmentary poetry to entire missing stories from famed ...

It is a vast, towering monument to Augustus, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar who built the Roman empire during his 40-year rule.

Such is the scale of the building that experts believe Augustus was probably inspired by the tomb of Alexander the Great in Alexandria in Egypt, or the mausoleum of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey, which ...

It is a vast, towering monument to Augustus, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar who built the Roman empire during his 40-year rule. The cylindrical base has a diameter of 90 metres, on top of which ...

A newly renovated colossal mausoleum for the founder of the Roman empire Augustus has reopened to the public in the Italian capital after centuries of neglect. Video by: Carys GARLAND Follow ...