Who Was Heron (Hero) of Alexandria? The Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria was active in his native city of ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

A Jewish leader and scholar, Philo (circa 20 BC – 40 AD) risked his life to plead for greater tolerance for Jews in the Roman Empire. Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and ...

Now, a tiny marble bust potentially depicting the famed queen has been discovered under a temple wall outside Alexandria, but archaeologists disagree on whether they are looking into the face of the ...

A tetradrachm bears the face of Zenobia, minted in Alexandria around A.D. 274 ... Palmyra and its domains were submissive to the Roman Empire and its emperor. Zenobia knew how to take advantage ...

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

They divided the Roman Empire between them ... Antony and Cleopatra fled back to Alexandria but, within a year, the city was besieged by Roman soldiers. Rather than be captured and taken to ...

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Christianity spread slowly West from Alexandria and East to Ethiopia. Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th ...