He holidayed in a villa outside Rome Before he was a war leader ... his mummy,” relays the historian. Mary at the Marcus Aurelius statue Amy Richlin from UCLA is writing a book on these early ...

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, one ...