The story of Emperor Trajan’s victory over ... they became a favorite theme for Roman sculptors. Trajan’s Forum had dozens of statues of handsome, bearded Dacian warriors, a proud marble ...

Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...

At this point history took a sharp turn. Shortly before Nerva died, Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of ...

Around A.D. 128, the emperor Hadrian had the statue moved to the northwest ... public baths of the emperors Titus and Trajan were constructed. After Rome succumbed to invaders in the sixth century ...

Voice 1: Emperor Constantine was a ruler from the fourth century who embraced Christianity and helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire. Now, he has a reconstructed statue befitting his ...

Rome, November 28 - A new Rome show on Roman emperor Trajan aims to show his 'pop' side, spanning the senses of being hugely popular with the Roman people and Senate and the original vision of a ...

Also a senator, he was climbing the political ladder and became consul of Rome in 100 AD. In 110 AD, Trajan sent Pliny to Bithynia (part of present-day Turkey) to investigate corruption there.

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...