Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Lion House is a striking slice of narrative non-fiction with all the verve of an immersive ...

The late Aussie restaurateur Tony Lo taught his son Buddha Lo — the winner of Season 19 of Top Chef — how to braise and glaze pork belly in a sweet and savory sauce laced with warm notes of ...

Donald Trump, the Roman emperor of reality TV Donald Trump has directed plenty of casual cruelty toward his opponents and detractors in the US as well, performing offensive imitations and hurling ...

Addressing the French Senate, Claude Malhuret, leader of France’s centre-right party, called Donald Trump a “dictator”, and compared him to Nero, the infamous brutal emperor of ancient Rome.

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

At its height it was also the largest building of its type north of the Alps, showing the importance of London within the Roman Empire. A reconstruction of how the basilica and forum may have looked ...

An arch in North Africa A city in present-day Libya, Leptis Magna was the birthplace of Roman emperor Septimius Severus in A.D. 145. This four-way, or tetrapylon, arch, built in his honor stood at ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town ...

The Roman Empire gave its place to the Roman Catholic Church. Photo of the facade of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When the Roman Empire ...

Some scorpion species are much safer than others. The list of reasonably safe species includes the emperor scorpion. In some parts of the world, these creatures are pests, but they’re also kept ...