As was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...
First emperor Augustus was the adopted son of Julius Caesar, while the list of adopted rulers includes Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius (pictured). By the ...
The Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees – evidence that led to landmark sanctions ...
Luke 3:1a-6: “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar — when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea … during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, son of ...
A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius Caesar, is anticipated to sell for more than $1.1 million at an auction in Switzerland.