Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The coin is thought to be the only one of its kind to be found in Britain A Roman coin that is believed to be the first of its kind found in the UK has sold for nearly £5,000. Ron Walters ...

An 1,955-year-old gold Roman coin has been sold for thousands of pounds at auction. It was unearthed by 76-year-old grandfather Ron Walters, in Dudley in the West Midlands. He finally struck gold ...

A rare 2,000-year-old Roman coin discovered by a 76-year-old farmer has been sold at auction for £4,700. Ron Walters, from Kingswinford, unearthed the gold coin depicting Emperor Aulus Vitellius ...

A man has shared how he found a coin dating back to 69 AD buried in a field near Dudley. The gold Roman coin is believed to be first of its kind ever found in Britain and is set to fetch thousands at ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A rare Roman gold coin (aureus) has gone on display at Scotland's only museum dedicated to Roman and Iron Age Scotland. The aureus was ...

A gold Roman coin believed to be the first of its kind ever found in Britain is set to fetch thousands at auction after being unearthed by a metal detectorist. Ron Walters, 76, finally struck gold ...