An Antonine emperor from half a millenium later follows, and then we have a figure of a terracotta horseman from the Byzantine period, the name used for the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, which was ...
The exhibition is organised into three chapters, over three rooms: the promise, the practice and the preservation of democracy. The first looks at the way societies have idealised democracy, ...
Described as possessing "astonishing beauty", two heads of ancient statues of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Dionysus, the god of wine, have been uncovered in an archaeological dig in the ancient ...