Some scenes remain ambiguous and their interpretations ... “Look at the Romans fighting with cutoff heads in their mouths. War is war. The Roman legions were known to be quite violent and ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

The vase, created in the 2nd century C.E. in Roman Colchester, located in modern-day Essex, features illustrations of gladiators and hunting scenes ... from the Trojan War named “Memnon ...