Why was Alexander the Great seen by the Romans as the greatest military leader of the ancient world? This question would ...

One of Travel + Leisure ’s Las Vegas reporters recently told me that the best view of Sin City is at a members-only bar ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

Left and top right: Painted replica of the Augustus Prima Porta statue. Below right: Portrait bust of Caligula. From the Gods in Colour exhibition. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Images: Paula Lock.

they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed Roman Emperor Caligula used to hold on ...

Experts believe that this statue might have been part of a ship constructed by the Roman Emperor Caligula around two thousand years ago. This ancient artifact was found when workers were cleaning the ...

Which is profoundly ironic, because even the sternest Roman statues were once painted all the colours of the rainbow – the pigments have simply faded in the intervening millennia. This image shows a ...

The image shows the Palatine ruins from the former site of the Circus Maximus, the largest hippodrome in the Roman world ... to make waves when her brother Caligula became emperor in A.D. 37.

An exceptionally well-preserved marble statue of a Roman dignitary has been discovered by construction workers in Varna, a coastal city on the Black Sea in Bulgaria. The life-sized sculpture ...

a few enemies. Likely a citizen of the ancient Roman-era city of Odessos, his likeness was immortalized with a statue sometime around the 2 nd or 3 rd centuries A.D. But the stone depiction of ...