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 ...

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

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

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

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

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...

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