In Albrecht Dürer’s idealized, early-16th-century portrait of Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor wears a dazzling crown. The diadem, topped by a cross, was itself very real.

One side of the pendant features the bust of Honorius, the Roman emperor who ruled from 393 to 423 C.E. He’s shown wearing chest armor and a pearl diadem.

AMMAN – The Roman style was popular among the ruling elites in the client states of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. However, on their coinage, the Nabataean rulers did not broadcast the ...

Here’s how it works. Sixth-century gold coins from the excavation at Debnevo, Bulgaria. The front of the coins depicts the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great wearing a pearl diadem.

The Roman Empire reared sheep extensively and it is generally understood that the famous Cotswold animal — large, sturdy, with a friendly, amused expression, a hardy constitution, good maternal ...

Constantine The Great was a powerful general and ruler who lived from 27 February 272 – 22 May 337 AD. He is perhaps best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor. This stopped people ...

After several years of digging and study, archaeologists are revealing an extraordinary—and enigmatic—mosaic discovered among the ruins of a Roman-era synagogue at a site in Israel known as Huqoq.

At its height the Roman Empire was so vast and powerful it was run on the basis of the dictum: “Roma locuta est. Causa finita est” (Rome has spoken. The cause has finished).

The ring at the center of The Lord of the Rings, the classic fantasy epic by J.R.R. Tolkien, may have been inspired by an ancient Roman artifact currently on display in a Tudor mansion in England ...