Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture, from Hollywood blockbusters to video games. Since its establishment in 31 B.C., the Roman Empire exerted its influence throughout the Mediterranean and ...
a few enemies. Likely a citizen of the ancient Roman-era city of Odessos, his likeness was immortalized with a statue sometime around the 2 nd or 3 rd centuries A.D. But the stone depiction of ...
Experts date the statue’s origin to the late 2 nd or early 3 rd century A.D. Other than the snapped-off right hand and some wear around the face, the Roman-dressed statue is considered in tip ...
The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...
Arles in the first century was the thriving gateway to Roman Gaul. Freight from all over ... He also started finding statues—a Venus here, a captive Gaul there. Word began to leak out.
“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the ...
Now, the looming Roman sculpture is finally back on display Julia Binswanger Daily Correspondent The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek statue. Stefano ...
Your support makes all the difference. Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was uncovered during construction in the ...