The Roman Empire (Latin:Imperium Rōmānum; Classical Latin:[ɪmˈpɛ.ri.ũː roːˈmaː.nũː]Ancient and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.Basileia tōn Rhōmaiōn) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia. The extended city of Rome was the largest city in the world c.100 BC–c.400 AD, with Constantinople (New Rome) becoming the largest around 500 AD, and the Empire's populace grew to an estimated 50 to 90million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population at the time). The 500-year-old republic which preceded it was severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflict, during which Julius Caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in 44 BC. Civil wars and executions continued, culminating in the victory of Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt. Octavian's power was now unassailable and in 27 BC the Roman Senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title Augustus, effectively marking the end of the Roman Republic.
Ancient Rome was an Italiccivilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world with an estimated 50 to 90million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population) and covering 6.5millionsquarekilometers (2.5millionsqmi) during its height between the first and second centuries AD.
London's Roman basilica is FOUND after 2,000 years - under the basement of an office block. But generally at Liternum, 'very little is still known' even though it dates back to the Roman Republic, the era dating before the mighty Roman Empire.
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism, this technological wonder—unearthed from a Roman-era shipwreck—remains an enigma even to 21st-century engineers. In 1901, sponge divers discovered an ancient Roman shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera.
...New Kingdom, particularly in the Ramesside era ... After suffering looting, it was transformed into a large priestly necropolis and later repurposed by quarry workers during the Ptolemaic and Roman eras.
Roman Reigns is easily the most dominant WWE Superstar of the modern era. So let's take a look at his nine WrestleMania main events and see which is the best ....
Credit... CR ... Credit ... It was destroyed in 115 AD during a Jewish rebellion and restored five years later under Roman order. The temple was again destroyed by an earthquake in 365 AD and restored in the contemporary era by British and Italian archeologists.
Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the RomanEmpire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago, experts announced this week.
A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna... They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire.
A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-centuryRomanEmpire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes...News / World News / Vienna excavation reveals mass grave of warriors from Roman era.
Archaeologists in Austria have uncovered a rare Roman-era mass grave beneath a football field, revealing the remains of young soldiers ... are calling an “extremely rare” Roman-era discovery.
Archaeologists excavating in Delbrück-Bentfeld, northwestern Germany, have uncovered evidence of an extensive Roman-era settlement beyond the borders of the Roman Empire.
previous eras, he misses "the ruggedness of characters" and in-ring focus, praising Roman Reigns as an example of somebody who attempts to be "more realistic and more credible and believable.".