When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

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I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

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Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

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

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

The victims were all male, likely a mix of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribesmen. Their remains were found haphazardly scattered, suggesting they were hastily dumped after battle. Experts have ...