British officials recently unveiled the discovery of a 1,900-year-old Roman coin hoard in the county of Norfolk, England. The ...

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But of course, Marcus Aurelius was a product of his time, who grew up within the social structures of antiquity. "There was slavery, and not even Marcus Aurelius wanted to abolish it," said Reuter.

Wise statements like this can be found in the "Meditations" of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD). He had never intended these reflections for publication, having written them purely for ...

The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own.

A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins spanning two centuries has been discovered in a field by a detectorist. The denarii date from the late Roman Republic to the reign of Marcus Aurelius and his wife ...

The coins featured the faces of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius, according to the University of Oxford’s Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project database.