98-117 AD - Trajan reigns. Trajan's reign takes Rome one more step toward universality. Now, educated and wealthy men from all over the Empire are eligible for the highest office. 180 AD - Pax ...

Timeline: Bringing Water to Rome The Caracalla Baths, depicted in this 19th-century engraving, opened in A.D. 217. Thanks to the aqueduct, free public access to baths became a highly valued ...

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...