President Biden on Jan. 5 and a bust of the Emperor Claudius in the Altes Museum in Berlin. Photos via Reuters and Wikimedia Commons Those who criticize President Biden as “too old” or “slow” or ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus — better known as Claudius — ascended the throne as the emperor of ancient Rome. During his 13-year reign, Claudius expanded the ...

Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

The limestone slab's inscription states that Claudius “extended and redefined the pomerium because he had increased the boundaries of the Roman people.” Sovrintendenza Roma For the first time in 100 ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor taste in ...

A Roman-era limestone sphinx was discovered from an excavation site of a limestone cabin, 310 miles south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The latest discovery is believed to be based on the royal ...

One of the funniest works of Roman literature to survive—and the only one that has ever made me laugh out loud—is a skit, written by the philosopher Seneca, about the Emperor Claudius’ adventures on ...