Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

When it comes to Roman Emperors and their fate, a big mystery appears that has baffled historians and archaeologists alike ...

Key figures like St. Peter and St. Paul played pivotal roles in spreading the faith, despite facing persecution, particularly under emperors like Nero and Diocletian. The conversion of Constantine ...

(Diocletian hated his one trip to the city.) The capital moved elsewhere. Power moved elsewhere. Rome didn’t matter in the least, even in the Roman Empire. Then the Empire fell, and the Senate ...

She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of Diocletian, and died in 288. According to legend, she attended to the wounded St. Sebastian after he was shot full of arrows as depicted in the ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica.

He was imprisoned during the Diocletian persecution and only released when Constantine the Great came to power and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. He is also called ...

Emperor Diocletian, who ruled from 284 to 305 C.E., attempted to restore stability by dividing the empire into eastern and western regions, each with its own ruler — a division aimed at making ...