The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrestled with these same struggles, jotting down his thoughts in what became Meditations.

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian of the ancient world ...