Finally, in 476, the Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus, who became the last Roman emperor. Sign ...

Researchers have now established that he was a lost Roman emperor An ancient gold coin proves ... time of his death and the story goes that the last thing he did was to write a note saying ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort. The team unearthed 141 gold ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a trove of 141 ancient Roman coins worth more than €300,000 ($310,000).

Once emperor and without an obvious heir, he had adopted Augustus. He may have been the first to choose a successor and call it hereditary succession, but he was not the last – Claudius ...

Because the Roman Emperor himself, Septimius Severus ... where York is today. But peace didn’t last long. Once he was gone, the Maeatae and the Caledonians rebelled. Severus was too old and ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

A Roman coin of the last pagan emperor which might have been deliberately damaged as an "act of erasure" was found by two metal detectorists. It depicts Julian the Apostate, part of Rome's first ...