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Walk through the 2,000-year-old Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome's first emperor
The circular tomb—used through history as a fortress, a sculpture garden and an entertainment venue—reopens as a museum after an €11m restoration
InterviewUK politics
'A democratic vote swayed by lies is not democracy'—Mary Beard on what antiquity can teach us about political spin
The recipient of the 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal discusses how understanding Cicero can help decipher the rise of populism
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Book Review: The arch of time
From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since
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Immortality, Roman style : Hadrian celebrated at the British Museum
Hadrian was a politically savvy, calculating, vicious, lion-hunting, married, gay general in the best tradition
ArchiveRestitution
Metropolitan to return antiquities to Italy
20 items that were looted or likely stolen are to be restituted
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How the Aboutaams tried, and failed, to sue the Kimbell Art Museum over a Roman torso
Lawsuit against Kimbell Art Museum was dismissed last November
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Letter: Nero is the subject of the Warren Cup
One of the British Museum's finest treasures may depict a notoriously licentious Roman emperor
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Getty returns three stolen works to Italy
Curator voluntarily collaborates with Italy in accordance with museum’s policy
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Saxon warrior discovered in Roman vineyard
The find dates from around AD 650
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In 1993 Rome’s town council began preparing for the Millennium. The debate has been over how much to alter Mussolini’s propagandistic exploitation of imperial remains
The archaeology of power
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Radar helps find amphitheatre without digging
New combination of techniques leads to important finds at ancient Italica
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Twice as much space for classical antiquities
Is a Roman bronze archaeology or art?