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London’s British Museum's latest exhibition invites visitors to step into the shoes of an ordinary Roman army soldier.

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - From cavalry helmets to panels of goatskin used for military tents, a new exhibition looking at the lives of Roman soldiers opens at the British Museum in London this week.

“Nero: The Man Behind the Myth” explores the true story of Rome’s fifth emperor informed by new research and archaeological evidence from the time.

The British Museum launched a public hotline on Tuesday asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery.

The museum confirmed in a press release on Tuesday that it has recovered 60 stolen items and identified an additional 300 that are due to be returned. The recovery webpage says the British Museum ...

A Roman emperor from the third century, who has a display at the North Hertfordshire Museum in the United Kingdom, has been reclassified as a transgender woman.

The British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding up to 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen ... including one Roman artifact— valued at over £50,000—offered on the ...