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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered fragments of a larger-than-life marble statue of famed Roman emperor Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus believe to date back some 1,900 years.

Leona said, "The statue topples ... He showed Teichner traces of the original paint on marble busts of the Roman emperor Septimius, and his wife Julia (or Yulia in Latin), owned by Indiana ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an extremely rare marble head depicting the ... noting that it is rare to find statues of the Roman emperor in Egypt. Egypt Independent reports that the ...

Getting the chance to curate was icing on the marble cake ... B.C.) to the late Roman Empire (5th century, A.D.). The sculptures portray emperors, empresses and patricians and according to ...