The piece of jewelry copies the imagery and inscriptions found on coins from the time of emperor Honorius, ruler of the Western Roman Empire from A.D. 393 to 423. The obverse shows a bust of ...
“We see Roman gold coins being repurposed as pendants, occasionally with very similar suspension loops, but here they've made the whole thing from scratch,” he adds. One side of the pendant ...
Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an ...
A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has revealed a little-explored aspect of ancient art: the use ...