“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 ...

Kousser said the first and most mundane reason so many statues get beheaded is that the neck is a natural weak point ...

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 ...

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 ...

After decades in the United States as part of a private collection that loaned it to New York’s Metropolitan Museum, a statue of the Roman emperor ... that have come down to us are heads ...

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 ...

Waziri also said in a statement that initial examinations point to the statue being modeled after the Roman Emperor Claudius, who ruled in the first century AD. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

But when it comes to ancient Roman statues ... the first and most mundane reason so many statues get beheaded is that the neck is a natural weak point on the human body. When a statue falls ...