“Most bronze statues were melted down in antiquity ... to 211 A.D., as a wily African-born Roman general who outmaneuvered four rivals to assume the emperor’s seat and establish a new imperial ...

when the region was a distant part of the Roman Empire. As part of the cult, the emperors were worshiped as gods. At some point in history, the site was buried underground but was targeted by ...

The headless statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was looted from ... scholar Elizabeth Marlowe told Hyperallergic in an email, pointing out that the looters had immediately garnered the ...

Archaeologists working in southern Egypt have unearthed a statute of a sphinx “with a light smile on his lips” and “two dimples”. The limestone artefact was discovered within a two-level ...

By the time Turkish authorities arrived on the scene in 1967, all that remained were empty pedestals and a single statue, now in a nearby museum. The pedestals bear the names of 14 Roman emperors ...