Cleveland Museum of Art A headless bronze statue that may depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius will be repatriated to Turkey after an investigation determined that it had been ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Aspendos in southwestern Türkiye recently uncovered a life-size statue of the ...

In the complaint, CMA argued that the statue could represent the Greek tragedian Sophocles or Roman emperors Lucius Verus or Marcus Aurelius, but that “without the head of the Statue ...

February 14: The Cleveland Museum of Art agreed to return the statue of Marcus Aurelius, looted from Bubon, to Türkiye. Turkish official Zeynep Boz said the repatriation “corrected an injustice ...

The fitting’s dating connects it to the reign of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Caracalla, from 198 to 217 C.E. A tyrannical and unpopular ruler, Caracalla ...

180: Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who became a symbol in the West ... 2016: Archaeologists announce the discovery of a 2,500-year-old, iron age, warrior king burial ground with 75 graves ...

They did a lot of testing where the statue had been in Turkey, and they determined that the pedestal that it was on did not have any indication that it was Marcus Aurelius. The way it was dressed ...

Bust of Marcus Aurelius. Credit: Bob3321 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA ... Marcus would have been about fourteen years old when Epictetus died. Rusticus gave Marcus his copy of Discourses by Epictetus.

103.1 x 127.2 cm. (40.6 x 50.1 in.) ...

When Agrippina’s son Nero ascended to the throne, he was only 16 years old. His mother guided the young ruler ... He handpicked Antoninus Pius to be his successor, and he also declared that Marcus ...

A headless ancient bronze statue, believed to depict either the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius or an unnamed philosopher, is set to return to Turkey after decades in a U.S. museum. The Cleveland Museum ...