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 ...

Odessos continued to thrive throughout the era of the Roman Empire—Varna has one of Europe’s largest preserved Roman bath ...

If there’s one bit of Ancient Roman history most people know ... We have also uncovered a 2,000-year-old bronze statue that ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between ... Men would usually marry in their mid-twenties, while women married while they were still in their ...

In typically gendered fashion, Madama Lucrezia, as the only female talking statue, is occasionally ... I was once a citizen of ancient Rome, and now everyone calls me Abbot Luigi.

They are two… The Aldobrandini Wedding, the Most Famous and Admired Roman Fresco until Pompeii was Discovered Since the Renaissance, the search for ancient remains, statues, marbles, and any object ...

Other women, attract attention for their flagrant sexual excesses. One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While ...

The Venus de Milo is one of the most representative statues of ancient Greece, it is immediately recognizable by its missing ...

Now, the looming Roman sculpture is finally back on display Julia Binswanger Researchers studying the ancient site of Fregellae reveal the consequences of challenging the Roman army ...

The seven-foot-tall statue of Apollo was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Roman house in 1489. It has been at the Vatican since the early 1500s, when Pope Julius II decided to bring the ...

The ancient ... corroded statue was pulled from the sea in 1999, a long desalination and restoration process commenced. Upon completion in 2005, archaeologists were left puzzled: Apoxyomenos’s motif ...