This is not only a crown; it is the echo of Charlemagne’s chapel in Aachen and reminiscent of imperial churches in Constantinople and Ravenna. The four enamel plaques show three Old Testament ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric ... Nero built a giant palace – but it was never finished After the great fire, Nero built an enormous palace ...

In this first ever biography of the Emperor Zeno (r. 474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man to help examine the convoluted history of the Roman ...

It’s rare to find a more infamous ruler than Nero. He became an Emperor in the year ... his grand palace. Nero was also ...

Some 1,700 years on, the Emperor Diocletian would still recognise ... Wandering aimlessly around the palace is one of Split’s essential experiences. There is no ticket office or protocol ...