Let's pretend you are a Roman official and you are arriving in Caesarea Maritima. What are you thinking? Well, let's say into any sort of maritime Roman provincial capital.... You would have seen ...

An image described as a “Fayum portrait”, a naturalistic portrait placed on mummies in Roman Egypt, has been widely shared on ...

The building and the paintings date back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum ...

A realistic portrait of the faces of 54 emperors who ruled the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 285 AD has been released using AI. Below are portraits of 54 Roman emperors created by Canadian designer ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article investigates a Roman marble portrait sculpture with divine attributes known as “Portrait Statue of a Woman as Cybele.” Now in the ...

Scientists and art conservators have discovered blue pigment used for subtle shading in ancient portraits, defying expectations for how the ancients used the synthetic pigment. The findings come from ...

The Journal of Roman Studies publishes papers in the full range of the field which the Roman Society was established to promote, i.e. 'the study of the history, archaeology, literature and art of ...