It once sat majestically at the heart of ancient Rome. Now a vast statue of Emperor Constantine the Great is returning to the Eternal City thanks to a high-tech reconstruction based on surviving ...

If you’ve ever visited the Capitoline Museums in Rome, you might have seen a statue of Constantine the Great. It’s hard to miss: the statue is just a bit more than life-size, and when complete stood ...

When it comes to large antiquities and statues, it’s commonplace to go to a museum and see figurines with missing limbs; the headless and armless torso of Winged Victory certainly generated one of the ...

In our last hour, we see how Rome exerted its fullest effort to eradicate Christianity. But both emperors and empires had fallen exhausted, while the faith grew stronger. It would be the conversion of ...

Archaeologists working along the banks of the Tiber river in Rome last week discovered what may be the remnants of an early Christian church likely dating to the fourth century CE. The site of the ...

It’s not every day that a jaunt with a metal detector turns up something truly revelatory. One might expect to find a vintage engagement ring or a necklace lost to time—but a set of over a thousand ...

When Constantine the Great (AD 272–337) consolidated power as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire, he initiated changes that permanently transformed both Western and Eastern civilizations. His ...

A man allegedly tried to illegally sell three rare Roman-era silver ingots that his great-grandmother reportedly found in her garden years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...