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 ...

Valentine was executed on February 14th, 270. Two centuries later, his execution day was declared as St. Valentine's Day.

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 ...

A unique combination” of Roman and British coins was uncovered in the Netherlands, highlighting the importance of Lower Germanic Limes in the Roman’s quest to conquer Britannia. Never before has such ...

The old king has been murdered by his own brother, Claudius, who has then seized the throne and married Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. Hamlet sets a trap for Claudius and once he knows that the new ...