Visitors at an exhibition featuring royal household items of Qing Dynasty at Beijing's Capital Museum. [Photo by Zou Hong/China Daily] A new exhibition on Manchu-style outfits, utensils and ...

The Qing Dynasty emperors did not take their meals in just one place. Often they ate where they lived, worked, or played. Banquets, feasts and dinners were given in Taihe Hall (the Hall of Supreme ...

One of the funniest works of Roman literature to survive—and the only one that has ever made me laugh out loud—is a skit, written by the philosopher Seneca, about the Emperor Claudius’ adventures on ...

From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa, the Mainz exhibition "The Emperors and the Pillars of their Power" looks into the power plays of the Middle Ages. The popular medieval fantasy series Game of ...

Set roughly two decades after the events of the Oscar-winning first film, Gladiator II tells a new tale about the Roman Empire and those who dared to defy it. Ridley Scott’s original film featured two ...

Why was the first century so turbulent? The first answer is simple: hereditary rule. For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they ...