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 ...

Despite its far-flung location and years of burial, the statue is remarkably well-preserved, save for the broken-off right ...

Italian archaeologists have unearthed 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues in Tuscany believed to date back to ancient Roman times. The statues were discovered under the muddy ruins of an ...

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

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

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

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

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was ... once known as the ancient Greek city of Odessos. Workers found the ...

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 ...