The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might ... works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are special, and viewers who give ...

In January, a 2,000-year-old marble statue was found in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki. Andrea Margolis is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Readers can follow her ...

BCE, the Romans began using the silver denarius as their standard form of currency. As the Republic grew in size and stature, ...

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

In all, roman emperors constructed dozens of villas over the roughly 350-year span of imperial rule,from the rise of Augustus in ... have yielded marble statues, frescoes and ornate architecture ...

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Opened in 1966 by Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin to channel the opulence and revelry of the Roman ... marble flooring, a stunning coffered ceiling, and a 15-foot-tall statue of Augustus Caesar ...

Roman museums are ... It was under Augustus that Rome first began to look like a world capital: its splendid monuments hewn from richly colored marble were, Pliny the Elder wrote in A.D. 70 ...

The lower section is ideal for a stroll among the pools lined with balusters, vases, statues ... situated on the site of a former Roman temple dedicated to Augustus. It is a Roman Catholic ...