This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Blaundos, located in Uşak Province in western Turkey, revealed a marble inscription dedicated to Roman Emperor Hadrian, Anadolu Agency reported.

As with the other volumes in the useful Bloomsbury series “Ancients in Action,” Morwood’s Hadrian is a short book about the peripatetic Emperor and his world, rather than a biography or even a “life ...