roman empire

Rome would never be the same again after the Vandals spent 14 days looting and pillaging the city. It's why the word "vandalism" exists today. Then, they all but disappeared. What happened?

There's a reason that the Roman Senate tried to erase every mention of Empress Messalina—but we've uncovered her dark history.

History remembers Marcus Aurelius as one of the Roman Empire's "good" emperors—but in Ancient Rome, even the good guys did some pretty disturbing things.

One historian said the mad Commodus turned Rome “from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust”—yet few people know this brutal emperor’s dark history.