Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

During the late third century, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided the vast empire into two halves to make it easier to govern. The Western Roman Empire was ruled from Milan, while the Eastern Roman ...

A 3rd century Roman emperor, once believed to be fictional, has been proven to have existed following the discovery of an ...

For centuries, historians have debated the reasons behind the collapse of the Roman Empire. Now, new research from Oxford and ...

In "Gladiator II," Denzel Washington plays Macrinus, the namesake of a historical emperor with a thrilling story.

Dwight Brown gives his review of the new film Gladiator II starring Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Joseph ...

By the third century of our era, we have something called Christianity with its own sacred books, its own rituals, its own ideas, but this is the great age of confrontation with the Roman Empire.

Whether as friends or foes of the Roman empire, the Goths and their history are entwined with the larger history of Rome in the third and fourth centuries ... Drinkwater, author of Fifth-Century Gaul: ...

Rome's Gothic Wars is a concise introduction to research on the Roman Empire's relations with one of the most ... of Romano-Gothic relations from their earliest stage in the third century, through the ...

said they dated from a time of increasing instability for the Roman Empire, when legal punishments became harsher. "The number of capital crimes doubled in the 3rd Century and quadrupled in the ...