Ranking immediately below senators, equestrians became an important human resource, whose work underpinned the smooth running of the Roman Empire ... to supply enough men of its own, so they ...
Formal manumission was performed by a magistrate and gave freed men full Roman citizenship. The one exception was that they were not allowed to hold office. However, the law gave any children born ...
A Roman gladiator’s tomb from the third century A.D. was uncovered in modern-day Turkey. Instead of the gladiator, archaeologists found the remains of 12 unidentified people in the reused tomb. 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 ...
Archaeologists consider this votive monument the largest of its kind discovered in the Roman-occupied regions of southern ...
They’re thinking about history, they’re thinking about art. And that seems to ... that women are surprised by how much men actually think about the Roman Empire, but it shouldn’t be ...
Challenging modern perceptions, textile art holds cultural significance beyond its recent recognition in fine art” ...
In Turkey, a team of archaeologists discovered the tomb of a Roman gladiator dating back to ... Mustafa Kemal University’s Department of Art History, according to the source.
The church is an ancient burial site, which the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I converted into a domed building during his ...
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 ...
“[And] the Roman empire’s a cool point of history that ... he thinks the city should be directing people to the art and ...
That canvas goes on show at Gagosian Gallery in Paris next week (17 October) alongside a Roman sculpture of Venus from the Torlonia Collection in Rome, which houses one of the world’s most ...