Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

AMMAN — Busts are among the most widespread forms ... “Such ‘crude’ portraits are attested all over the Roman Empire, and strikingly similar items have been unearthed, for instance ...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented ...

A woman from the US state of Texas has handed in a 2,000-year-old Roman bust she bought four years ago in a second-hand store for US$34.99 (HK$275). In a post to her Instagram followers ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council ... could afford to become deeply involved in politics. During the empire, the senate was at the head of the government bureaucracy and ...

He also moved fast to strengthen the northern borders of the empire and tackle its enemies in the east. At home, he reformed the Roman calendar, tackled local government, resettled veterans into ...

The piece of jewelry copies the imagery and inscriptions found on coins from the time of emperor Honorius, ruler of the Western Roman Empire from A.D. 393 to 423. The obverse shows a bust of ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... If the general depicted here really is Aetius, then the busts depicted on the medal of the shield would be the Emperor Valentinian himself—who ...

Building on a longstanding American tradition of tying its history to Rome, the right’s leaders have embraced the aesthetic: a bust of Caesar ... the fall of the Roman Empire.