While repairing a sewer along Rome's ancient Appian Way, workers came across an incredible discovery: an ancient marble ...

ROME, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A life-sized statue of a Roman emperor posing as the classical hero Hercules has been discovered during sewer repair works near the Appia Antica (Appian Way), ancient Rome ...

Already returned to Turkey last year by investigators was another statue said to have been stolen from Bubon. The largely intact eight-foot-tall bronze depicts the Roman emperor Lucius Verus and ...

Among the most striking installations at the Art Institute’s “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, is a “gallery of emperors” featuring Rome’s imperial ...

By Graham Bowley 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 ...

the Romans deliberately smashed their own statues. In a process called "damnatio memoriae," the Roman Senate could vote to condemn the memory of an especially disliked emperor after his death.

Roman Emperor Hadrian (full name Publius Aelius ... or rub shoulders with his gay lover by visiting the Statue of Antinous in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. The emperor may have been known as a ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered what appears to be a smiling ancient Sphinx. With deep sandy eyes and a wide smirk, the statue is probably modelled on the Roman emperor Claudius, the ...

Among them are funerary relics, busts of Roman emperors, and statues of deities—most, like the Halsted Athena, acquired around the 18th and 19th centuries.

explaining that the marble statue had been placed in the sewer and covered with dirt, possibly as Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire and pagan symbols were banned.

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...