Some folks cannot believe the Roman Colosseum was home to man-eating sharks, but the truth isn’t too far removed from ...

Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

There's evidence that in one such instance, under Emperor Claudius' rule, an orca traveled to the Tiber River and some effort was made to turn the event into a spectacle by blocking off access ...

The limestone sphinx with its "smiley face and two dimples" is thought to represent Roman Emperor Claudius. It is much smaller than the famous Sphinx in the Pyramids of Giza, which is 20m (66ft ...

The first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing institutions into an imperial tradition. But the ancient ...