As emperor, Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to become larger than ever before. He conquered Dacia (now part of Romania), which provided land for Roman settlers and rich pickings from gold and ...

Archaeologists in Rome uncovered a colossal ancient marble head near Trajan’s Forum, possibly depicting Emperor Trajan or the ...

A statue of Trajan, a former Roman emperor, on the main road outside the Imperial Forum in Rome in 2022. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) Review by Stephanie McCarter.

Nigel Mills, Coins and Artefacts Specialist at Noonans, said: “The coin was issued by the Emperor Trajan in AD 107 after he had recalled all the worn Republican coins from circulation and only ...

By A.D. 97, about a century before the Gladiator movies take place, Trajan from Spain became the first non-Italian emperor. A series of fellow Spaniards, Gauls (Frenchmen), North Africans, and ...

A crackdown on international art trafficking has recovered 11,049 stolen artefacts, including ancient coins and books and a marble bust believed to represent the niece of a Roman emperor, European ...