I know all about the kings and queens who brought progressive reforms and won great wars. But what about those that did some disturbing things and committed atrocious crimes? That's what I want to ...

Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated ...

NAPLES, ITALY—ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have uncovered several frescoes in the Villa Poppaea. The luxurious ...

Several vivid frescoes have re-emerged during the excavation of Villa di Poppea, an ancient countryside retreat that was frozen in time by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The decorative wall ...

Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment are coming to theaters later this Fall with a huge new movie, and we’ve finally gotten an English dub trailer showing off what to expect. Crunchyroll has ...

EXCLUSIVE: Synkronized has acquired worldwide distribution rights from IUVIT Media Sales to suspense drama The Estate, starring acting legend Vanessa Redgrave and husband Franco Nero (Django).

In around 56 CE, the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote a work, On Clemency, for the benefit of the emperor Nero, whom he served as advisor. We know that three books were planned, but we have only the ...

President of players' global union Fifpro Sergio Marchi has brutally ridiculed FIFA president Gianni Infantino. FifPro has called for FIFA to learn from the shortcomings of the Club World Cup ahead of ...

When I endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024, it was with regret. I was sorry to turn my back on my old friend Donald Trump, because he had been loyal and supportive. He was never perfect, but for all his ...

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her ...

In his victory speech in November, Donald Trump made a promise: And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants ...