What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius: the long-hidden villa that may mark the final resting place of ...

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 ...

He was the first Roman emperor, who took over from Julius Caesar and built an empire that would eventually stretch from the UK to Egypt, boasting on his death bed that “I found Rome built of bricks, ...

ROME (Reuters) - After decades of neglect, one of ancient Rome's most important monuments, the mausoleum of the first emperor Augustus, has been restored and will reopen early next year, city ...

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 ...

A 2,000-year-old marble head of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, has been discovered in Isernia, an Italian town in the south central region of Molise. Archaeologist Francesco Giancola made the ...

A 2,000-year-old marble head depicting Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, has been found in a small Italian town during a construction project. Augustus ruled from 27 B.C. until he died in 14 A.D., and ...