all that remained were empty pedestals and a single statue, now in a nearby museum. The pedestals bear the names of 14 Roman emperors and empresses, including Marcus Aurelius. Had it been ...

A curator in England has rediscovered a tiny Roman-era bronze bust of the emperor Caligula, which had been missing for some 200 years. The artifact was unearthed in the mid-18th century at ...

But not everyone was convinced. “I looked at the bust carefully. It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass told Live Science. He noted that ...

a Roman art and provenance specialist at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Experts believe an American soldier might have smuggled the bust back to the U.S. after the king's villa in Germany was ...

Experts have found a rare bronze bust depicting one of the most colourful characters in Roman history – the mad, sexually-depraved Emperor Caligula. Considered lost for nearly 200 years ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A bronze bust believed to depict the daughter of an ancient Roman emperor has been seized from an art museum in Massachusetts by New York authorities investigating ...

They stumbled across a marble statue of an ancient Roman Emperor! Not only that, the life-size sculpture was found to be posing as the classical hero Hercules. Experts think the statue is that of ...

Female members of the imperial family, the wives, daughters - and particularly - mothers of Roman emperors are some of the most colourful characters of Rome in the early imperial age; as described ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — A bronze bust believed to depict the daughter of an ancient Roman emperor has been seized from an art museum in Massachusetts by New York authorities investigating antiquities ...