Denzel Washington picked up his fifth 'Best Actor' award at the 2025 BET Awards, held on June 9, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California.

He ascended to the throne in 161 C.E., just a few years before the Marcomannic Wars (166-180 C.E.) — the Marcomanni were Germanic tribes — which would shake the Roman Empire to its foundations.

Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-king, faced crises while ruling the Roman Empire, as reflected in his personal "Meditations," now a bestseller. An upcoming exhibition in Trier explores Aurelius's ...

No kings’ would effectively be the watchword through the Roman republic’s entire history. ‘Rex’ was a word the Romans hated.

they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed Roman Emperor Caligula used to hold on the ship. Instead, they were vestiges of modern, everyday life from a ...

Two metal detectorists are celebrating after finding an "unbelievable" hoard of 29 silver Roman coins on Anglesey - five months after unearthing another "amazing" collection of 400 Medieval coins ...

The site turned out to be what Italian archeologists believe was once "the pleasure gardens" of the Roman emperor Caligula - where some 2,000 years ago all sorts of lavish parties, royal intrigue ...

The general is then thrown into the Colosseum as punishment and ordered to fight Lucius in front of the emperors and scores of Roman citizens. Though Lucius has previously vowed to kill Acacius to ...

A social and cultural anastylosis rises up on the slopes of the Gran Sasso.

Among the ancient Hebrews, men were free to take several wives; married Greek and Roman men were free to satisfy their sexual urges with concubines, prostitutes and even teenage male lovers ...

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