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 ...

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

The lower section is ideal for a stroll among the pools lined with balusters, vases, statues, and benches ... in 15 B.C. during the rule of Emperor Augustus. The tower is 18 meters tall today ...

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Small Praxitelean marble statue of god Dionysus with a wreath of ivy and pine nuts on the head. Traces of color are preserved at the beard and the hair. Credit: Egisto Sani, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The ...

This “Eastward Expedition” traditionally marks the beginning of Japan as a nation, and Jinmu is revered as the legendary first tennō, or emperor, of Japan. The Komamiya shrine in Nichinan ...