The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “Rome was not built in a day.” Caesar Augustus boasted, “I found Rome a city of brick and ...
She says the statue, which is made of white marble and small enough to fit in someone’s hand ... According to lore, she took ...
The city of Rome was the beating heart of the Roman Empire, which spanned from the rise of Augustus in around 27 BCE until ...
( MENAFN - The Conversation) Canada finds itself at a moment of reckoning. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his ...
The marble statue had been placed in the sewer and covered with dirt. Credit: @thandojo/X Archaeologists near Bulgaria’s southeastern border with Greece uncovered a nearly 7-foot statue of the ancient ...
The year’s most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Fascinating finds unveiled ...
The statue’s wide-open arms, spanning 92 feet, seem to personally welcome the more than 4 million visitors who make the trek to see the monument each year. But now, its management and future are ...
Deifying his great uncle and renaming himself Augustus, Octavian brought down the ancient world’s greatest Republic and rebirthed it an empire. Brilliant and ruthless, Octavian did so in a way ...
Pete McWilliam/Castle Rock Brewery Supported by By Ali Watkins At six feet, the statue was taller than the man ever was. Carved roughly from limestone, his large shoulders hunched under a bright ...