Despite the hardships, many who had been posted to Britain settled there, taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD ...

Halsted A&A Foundation With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the ...

The work is a terracotta model of the statue Bernini made for a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome in 1653. It then came into the possession of an Italian family. The sculptor was an important ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

Excavations has been taking place since 2007 led by ... Along with the statue of Hermes. Around 380, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the official state religion, which could explain ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023 ...

The late-16th-century Fontana Del Facchino (Fountain of the Porter) on Via Lata near Piazza di San Marcello is a great example of one of Rome’s famed “talking statues.” They traditionally ...

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 ...