100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic ...

At this point history took a sharp turn. Shortly before Nerva died, Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors. After being locked away for much of the 20th century, the collection toured Europe in a recent ...

A woman from the US state of Texas has handed in a 2,000-year-old Roman bust she bought four years ago in a second-hand store for US$34.99 (HK$275). In a post to her Instagram followers ...

Sculptures of Roman emperors have gone back on display at a Cambridgeshire estate following an absence of "more than 60 years". The busts were on show at Wimpole Hall from "at least the 1770s ...

AMMAN — Busts are among the most widespread forms ... “Such ‘crude’ portraits are attested all over the Roman Empire, and strikingly similar items have been unearthed, for instance ...

The first Roman emperor to wear a full beard ... all decorated with exquisite mosaics, busts, and sculptures of gods and heroes modeled on the best examples of Greek statuary.

The Eastern Roman Empire had seven simultaneous emperors during the Middle Ages, between the years 1203 and 1204 AD. This was ...