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While repairing a sewer along Rome's ancient Appian Way, workers came across an incredible discovery: an ancient marble ...
They stumbled across a marble statue of an ancient Roman Emperor! Not only that, the life-size sculpture was found to be posing as the classical hero Hercules. Experts think the statue is that of ...
Construction workers unearthed a life-size marble statue of a Roman emperor dressed as Hercules while repairing a Roman sewer. “I doubt anyone was expecting a find like this under these ...
Image A damaged head of the Roman emperor ... is a stone sculpture described as a Perge Theater Head that dates to 290 A.D. and is valued at $250,000. Investigators said the marble head, which ...
It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors. After being locked away for much of the 20th century, the collection toured Europe in a ...
The marble sculpture, showing a Hercules-like figure ... Decius was the first Roman emperor to be killed in battle - fighting against the Goths in modern day Bulgaria - and was behind the first ...
By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an unexpected discovery in an ancient Roman sewer last week: A well-preserved marble statue, taller than a man.
Next to the Aphrodite statue, researchers found another nearly 2-metre-tall statue of a woman with features from the time of Roman emperor Severus ... its production of marble statues.
Among the most striking installations at the Art Institute’s “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, is a “gallery of emperors” featuring Rome’s imperial ...
Houston's holiday season will have a distinctly Roman feeling this year, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is bringing the ...