As part of the Latsis Universitaires 2025 awards ceremony on Thursday at Uni Dufour, Mary Beard will be giving a lecture on the image that Roman authors portrayed of their emperors. The professor of ...

131.5 x 94 cm. (51.8 x 37 in.) unframed: 131.5 x 94 cm.; 51¾ x 37 in. framed: 157 x 119.8 cm.; 61¾ x 47¼ in. A series, now lost, of twelve portraits of Roman emperors was commissioned from Titian by ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of different ...

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 ...

Beneath the ancient village of Huqoq, archaeologists find 22 Roman coins hidden during the fourth-century Jewish revolt in ...

In 1713, a cache of Roman coins was discovered in Transylvania, several of which bore the portrait and name of Sponsian—but there are no historical records of a Roman emperor with that name. The coins ...

New analysis of ancient Roman coins long dismissed as forgeries has found they appear to be authentic, revealing a previously unknown Roman emperor. The coins in question were unearthed in ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have proven the authenticity of several Roman coins previously dismissed as forgeries – providing evidence that an emperor disregarded as fake might in fact ...