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The Roman Empire

The Roman Empire

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: Rome 192 AD. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. (Channel 5)

Eight Days That Made Rome: behind the scenes with historian Bettany Hughes

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

Gold medallion of Constantius I, from the mint of Trier. It depicts Constantius celebrating his victory over Alectus in AD 296. Constantius is shown on a horse at the gates of London, welcomed by Britannia. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe first British Empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

Hadrian's travels. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of five marble busts of typical early Roman citizens. The empire expanded by absorbing the peoples it defeated, giving rights and obligations to former outsiders. (Photo by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life of the Week: Romulus Augustus

A detail of a fresco of Hannibal riding his elephant. It is estimated he took as many as 40 elephants when he marched an army across the Alps and into northern Italy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many elephants did Hannibal take over the Alps?

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