The second-century A.D. world of Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in shambles. A great plague ravaged western Europe, as he embarked on a long and bloody war against the Germanic tribes along the Danube ...

In the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum, by the River Danube, contemplating the fact that one day nobody would ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen. By Tom Mashberg and Graham Bowley ...

Some argue that the statue depicts an unnamed philosopher, rather than Marcus Aurelius. Cleveland Museum of Art A headless bronze statue that may depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus ...