A woman from the US state of Texas has handed in a 2,000-year-old Roman bust she bought four years ago in a second-hand store for US$34.99 (HK$275). In a post to her Instagram followers ...

AMMAN — Busts are among the most widespread ... “Such ‘crude’ portraits are attested all over the Roman Empire, and strikingly similar items have been unearthed, for instance, in Baelo ...

The Roman writer Claudius Aelianus informs us ... We just need to keep in mind two important issues. Firstly, ancient portraits and busts were themselves not always reliable depictions of people ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...