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 ...

New York and London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xxxii, 279. Illus., notes, sources, index. $43.99 paper. ISBN:1032262516 The Roman Senate in the Fourth-Century Empire. Rita Lizzi Testa’s Christian Emperors ...

If you’ve ever set foot in a Greek and Roman art museum, you’ve probably seen the rows of tranquil-looking concrete busts. They do, however, have no pupils in the eyes, lack any sort of color, and in ...

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Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

Roman emperors faced a high risk of violent death in their first year of rule, but the risk slowly declined over the next seven years, according to an article published in the open access journal ...

Roman Emperor Valerian’s capture by Shapur I at Edessa was the lowest point in Roman history, exposing the empire's sudden ...

Emperors of ancient Rome tended to die bloody, violent deaths. In fact, a Roman gladiator had better odds of surviving a brutal fight in the arena than an emperor had of dying peacefully of natural ...