SUBJECTS: History YEARS: 7–8. Septimius Severus (145-211 CE) was also a soldier who went on to become Roman Emperor, from 193 CE to 211 CE. He was born in Leptis Magna, in North Africa.

Rome’s Genocidal Caledonian War. British historian and archaeologist Elliott, who has written extensively on Roman military institutions and campaigns, gives us an analytical look at the Emperor ...

For three years the Roman Empire was run from York. MATT CLARK visits a new exhibition about the man who brought his court to the city.

An ancient bronze thought to be a likeness of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus is to be reunited with its long lost torso after a Danish museum agreed that its sculpture of a bearded man’s ...