He was Rome's first and arguably greatest emperor, a fine soldier and wise administrator who boasted that he found Rome built of bricks and left it cloaked in marble. But as the city prepares to ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome, a city that thinks in millennia, is going through a bout of "Augustus fever" to mark the 2,000th anniversary of the death of its first emperor, who left his mark on Rome and ...

For decades, the Mausoleum of Augustus was closed to the public, hiding the burial place of Rome’s first emperors behind locked gates and restoration work. Now reopened, its ancient corridors and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The early villa at Somma Vesuviana. The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants of another villa ...

Having fought his way into power, Augustus used religion as a tool to protect his position and promote his political agenda. Having gained power by force in a bitterly fought civil war, Augustus was ...