When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like. ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Nine of the worst Roman emperors, known for madness, violence, corruption, and misrule, ultimately pushed the Roman Empire ...

Roman dodecahedrons have puzzled researchers since their first discovery in 1739. These twelve-faced bronze objects have been found in various regions of the Roman Empire, with their ...

Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...

An ancient emperor thought to be made up could be real after all, according to researchers who've analyzed an ancient coin bearing his face. There are four coins on display at the University of ...

The coins stretch across the reign of nine emperors, each with their face depicted on the gold “solidi.” The rarest coins come from Emperor Eugenius, who had a short-lived two-year reign.

Two men face sentencing for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree near Hadrian's Wall in northern England. The tree stood ...

A sphinx found at an ancient Egyptian temple may depict the face of the Roman emperor Claudius, but not everyone agrees with this interpretation.

Julius Caesar’s face seen 2068 years after brutal death of Rome’s most famous emperor Alessandro Tomasi, a 20-year-old Italian-Lebanese artist and student from Florence, Italy has recently ...