Publius Afranius Potitus learned the hard way that some promises should come with fine print. The Roman plebeian publicly ...

Experts have found a rare bronze bust depicting one of the most colourful characters in Roman history – the mad, sexually-depraved Emperor Caligula. Considered lost for nearly 200 years, the ...

Caligula proved a popular choice as emperor, both in Rome and in the provinces. He was not only the son of Germanicus but also the grandson, on his mother’s side, of Marcus Agrippa, and the ...

Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," has contributed to 60 Minutes since 2006. His exceptional reporting on big news events has earned Cooper a reputation as one of television's ...

For literally thousands of years, the story of the mad Roman Emperor Caligula has passed through history, serving as a cautionary tale about the corruption that comes with absolute power and a ...

At the end of the 19th century German historian Ludwig Quidde wrote a bestselling biography of the Roman emperor, which everybody assumed was an attack by proxy against Kaiser Wilhelm II (earning the ...

Italy has never wanted for pleasure palaces. At Silvio Berlusconi’s mansion in Arcore, outside Milan, attendees stripteased and beyond at the so-called Bunga Bunga festivities hosted by the former ...

During the four years that Caligula occupied the Roman throne, his favorite hideaway was an imperial pleasure garden called the Horti Lamiani. The vast residential compound spread out on the Esquiline ...

The Nazis were wrongly accused of torching pleasure boats belonging to Roman emperor Caligula and it was instead the US artillery that destroyed them while shelling the Germans, according to ...