It was a Roman colony after the fall of Carthage ... it meant that he could no longer call himself “King-Emperor.” In Ethiopia’s capital at Addis Ababa, King-Emperor Haile Selassie did ...

Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of Upper Germany. The first emperor to have been born outside Italy ...

Italy, archaeologists excavated the remnants of a Roman emperor’s palace. One particular find — a bright blue chunk — caught their attention and turned out to be a rare ancient material.

Its history makes it remarkable: rebuilt by the Emperor Hadrian between 118 and 125 AD, the Pantheon is the only ancient Roman building that has remained practically intact through the centuries.