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97Roman Emperor - Claudius
Roman emperor from 41 AD to 54 AD. Claudius was a scholar, historian and able administrator. One of the greatest of the early Roman emperors. He was made emperor by the Praetorian Guard after the murder of his nephew, Gaius Caligula, in AD 41.
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93Roman Emperor - Nero
Born at Antium, his original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; but in AD 50 his mother married her uncle, the emperor Claudius, who adopted and renamed him. In 53, at the age of 16, Nero married Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina. On the death of Claudius in the following year Agrippina secured the succession of Nero to the exclusion of her stepson Britannicus, who was poisoned in 55.
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88Roman Emperor - Titus
Roman emperor from AD 79. Eldest son of Vespasian, he captured Jerusalem in 70 AD to end the Jewish revolt in Roman Palestine. He completed the Colosseum, and helped mitigate the suffering from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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80Roman Emperor - Constantine I
Constantine the Great, born Flavius Valerius Constantinus, at Naissus, in Upper Moesia (now Nish, Yugoslavia), 272 A.D. He was the illegitimate son of Emperor Constantius I and his mother was Flavia Helena....
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94Pompeii, Italy - The Lost City
In the fateful year of 79 AD, during the heyday of the Roman Empire, Pompeii (Italy) was a thriving city of about 20,000 inhabitants. By the end of August that same year, they were all gone, and the city was left for dead along with its inhabitants.
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78Roman Emperor - Caligula
Roman emperor, son of Germanicus and successor to Tiberius in AD 37. Caligula was a cruel tyrant and was assassinated by an officer of his guard. He is believed to have been mentally unstable.
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85Ten Most Exotic Places of the World
GOD has created this world so beautifully. But what we do to it? We sometimes even do not bother to explore it, there are more then 80% people in the world that have never ever seen even 5% of this beautiful...
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83Some Facts About The Roman Empire
According to legend, Rome was a settlement of a mixture of native Latins and the survivors of the Trojan War who were brought to Italy in the 12th century. On a date corresponding to April 21, 753BC, the city...
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79double headed serpent
This two headed serpent was made in the 1500's and is now a permanent part of the Mexican Gallery at the British museum in London, England. The original turquoise double headed serpent is 43.3 cm wide and...
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88The Roman Empire
The period which Rome controlled most of the Mediterranean world is known as the Roman Empire. The term empire refers to both the extent of Rome's territories and the type of rule. The length of time and vastness of the area spanned by Rome's empire make it almost impossible to generalise about its features. At its greatest extent it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Mesopotamia in the east, along the Rhine and Danube frontiers to the north and the top of Africa to the south.
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