After a contractor working on a project near Varna, Bulgaria, (where Odessos was located during the era of the Roman Empire) ...

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 ...

Connected to both the Greek and Roman worlds, Varna was once known as Odessos in antiquity, and the statue was of a Roman ...

34 x 21.5 cm. (13.4 x 8.5 in.) ...

Before the statue was even built, Caligula had been murdered and a new emperor – Claudius – was ... and published his complaints against the Roman treatment of Jews in Alexandria.

the Romans deliberately smashed their own statues. In a process called "damnatio memoriae," the Roman Senate could vote to ...

A statue of a young woman depicted as the goddess Juno The Roman Empire was polytheistic - this means that people worshipped more than one god. Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion ...

Enslaved people were bought and sold all around the empire. You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus ...

The statue, which Bulgarian news agency BTA reported ... of Moesia that prospered in the second and third centuries. Roman Emperor Theodosius II signed an armistice with Attila the Hun in Odessos ...

“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 ...

Two Roman sculptures have been unearthed at an archaeological dig The heads were found during the latest excavation at Carlisle Cricket Club The site's lead archaeologist said they were "priceless ...