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Daniel Voshart, a designer in Toronto, used machine learning and Photoshop to transform busts of Roman emperors into photorealistic images. Voshart wanted to present the emperors as they would have ...

Ancient Rome was a dangerous place to be an emperor. During its more than 500-year run, about 20 percent of Rome's 82 emperors were assassinated while in power. So, what led to their downfalls?

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

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Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d. Archaeologists unearthed foundations (in box, above right) of a late second- or early ...