A Roman mausoleum unearthed in France near Lyon reveals strong ties to Augustus’ tomb and sheds light on Roman elite life in Gaul.

In a New Yorker profile, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described his fascination with the Roman emperor Augustus, who Zuckerberg praises for achieving 200 years of world peace, although it came ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a marble head of the Roman emperor Augustus in the Italian town of Isernia, located in the region of Molise. According to a report by the Italian publication Il ...

Archaeologists have already located places where Augustus partied, but a new lead has emerged in the century-long search for the villa where Ancient Rome’s first emperor passed away. Since 2002 ...

If you consider the Roman Empire to have ended in 476 and count only emperors who were old enough to rule for their entire ...

Augustus was the first Roman emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus in 63 BC, he came from an old and wealthy family and his great-uncle was Julius Caesar.

This is how the Roman Republic fell. Augustus became emperor not because he arrested the Roman Senate. He became emperor because he promised that he would solve problems that were not being solved.” ...

Emperor Augustus' frescoed palace atop Rome's Palatine Hill, one of the city's famous seven hills, will partially reopen to the public March 2 after decades of restoration work, officials said Monday.

The Emperor of Rome was already the most powerful man on earth, but this wasn’t enough. Augustus wanted a piece of heaven too: he was determined that his people would see him as their supreme ...

"All the photos were different sculptures of Augustus," Zuckerberg told The New Yorker. It didn't end there, though, and the couple named their second daughter August, after the emperor.