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 ...
but very few similar statues are preserved in the world and many are missing their heads. During the Roman Empire, Christianity became the official religion and pagan symbols like these deities ...
After a contractor working on a project near Varna, Bulgaria, (where Odessos was located during the era of the Roman Empire) discovered the statue, Vasil Tenekedjiev—expert with the Regional ...
Museum director Catherine Monnet was visibly moved when Arthur Brand handed back the statue Almost half a century after it was stolen, a Roman statue of the god Bacchus has been handed back to the ...
“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 ...
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 ...