One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family. It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and ...

This restitution contributes to redressing a historical injustice that is still being felt today,” a Dutch minister said.

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own. Aurelius ...

A pivotal moment came in A.D. 180 when Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, a Germanic tribe near the Danube River. Facing heavy losses from war and disease, Rome recruited foreign ...

with sculptures that were often downright unpleasant. His major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome’s Pi azza del Campidoglio.

This, at least, is the conclusion that could be drawn by the discovery of a round bronze fitting engraved ... it to the reign of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...

The New York Yankees have a bit of a problem as they head into the 2025 season. They have Marcus Stroman on the roster, set to be paid nearly $20 million on the season, yet they have no need for ...

This large farmstead at Hove in Sandnes, Rogaland, was established around AD 200, after the demolition of an existing village comprising 5−6 farms—serving as a concrete example of how incoming auxilia ...

Hoard of silver Roman coins found in UK — and some date to reign of Marcus Aurelius Why Does the U.S. Import Oil When It Produces So Much? Private Blue Ghost lander spotted on the moon by NASA ...