Since 1471, the Capitoline Museums have been accumulating masterpieces of ancient art here, with patience and devotion ... He chose the Capitoline Hill, the symbolic centre of the ancient Roman ...

Art World It Wasn’t Just Pompeii. Archaeologists Say the Roman Republic and Even Ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Kingdom May Have Been Ended by Volcanoes ...

Next to Julius Caesar, Augustus and Nero, Marcus Aurelius is one of the most famous leaders of the Roman Empire. Part of that is due to his role in “Gladiator,” the Oscar winner for Best ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...

Originally inhabited by aboriginal tribes known as the Elymians, Sicanians, and Sicels, Sicily was first colonized by the Greeks before becoming a part of the Roman Republic in 241 B.C.E.

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