Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

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I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders in the history of the world - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. We have his bronze head here in the Roman galleries in the ...

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In Rome, archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace, have made a striking discovery: an uncommonly large Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known for ...

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In a recent New Yorker profile, the tech mogul revealed that his fascination with the ancient Roman emperor ... Julius Caesar squared off against his rival Pompey. And, of course, Augustus himself ...

I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders in the history of the world - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. We have his bronze head here in the Roman galleries in the ...