This video explores an alternate outcome of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, with Maxentius defeating Constantine. It looks ...

This video examines how the little-known Emperor Maxentius built the last grand structures in ancient Rome. It also explores ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine received a vision from God: if he embraced Christianity he would win. His ...

First was a riddle: Why did Maxentius, the last pagan emperor of Rome, never occupy his 80-acre villa outside the great city? Then came a mystery: Was the Villa of Maxentius built atop a structure ...

Maxentius, JOANNES, leader of the so-called Scythian monks, appears in history at Constantinople in 519 and 520. These monks adopted the formula: “One of the Trinity suffered in the flesh” to exclude ...

In the year 533, Emperor Justinian wished to rebuild Constantinople, Theodora wished to rebuild her reputation, and Maxentius wished to rebuild his life. Three people, three destinies, one story. At ...

For close to a decade, the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado has conducted summer excavations and student field training at the Villa of Maxentius, a vast, tripartite complex ...

The year 535. Maxentius and Ofellus travel to the imperial provinces. From Italy, the Gothic sect of the Black Swans is plotting the empire’s downfall. Is the eternal war between the Romans and the ...

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