Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

During construction work in the city of Varna, workers found a well-preserved marble statue dating back to the Roman era ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A marble statue from ancient Rome was recently discovered in what is now Varna, Bulgaria. Experts date the statue’s origin to the late 2 nd or early 3 rd century A.D. Other than the snapped-off ...

From Venus to Yahweh to Ganesha, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston surveys depictions of divinity through the ages.