Trajan’s war on the Dacians ... Present-day city names are in parentheses. Map: Jerome N. Cookson, Alexander Stegmaier, and Matthew Twombly, NGM Staff. Sources: Ioana A. Oltean, University ...

Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job. The results were remarkably successful. Nerva became emperor immediately after Domitian’s ...

In 110 AD, Trajan sent Pliny to Bithynia (part of present-day Turkey) to investigate corruption there. He appears to have died a few years later. His lasting fame, however, comes from the nine ...