The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

This alone ensured that the Senate and its members remained relevant and important. The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries ...

Over time, the Senate would be open to Roman citizens from outside Italy. By the end of the first century, even the emperor himself would be born abroad.

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

The senate still gave advice, but the emperor, rather than the people had the real power. The empire lasted over five hundred years, but after losing control of some of its lands, Rome gradually ...