Roman Empire

98 artifacts · 800 BCE – 1180 CE · architecture (31) · people (27) · battle (23) · artifact (10) · art (4) · spiritual (3)

From a village on the Tiber to an empire spanning three continents. These objects tell the story: forums and aqueducts, generals and emperors, the battles that built it and the sack that ended it.

The Collection

• Roman Forum — 800 BCE · architecture
• Leptis Magna — 700 BCE · architecture
• Pompeii — 600 BCE · architecture
• Circus Maximus — 550 BCE · architecture
• Capitoline Wolf — 500 BCE · artifact
• Volubilis — 399 BCE · architecture
• Servian Wall — 350 BCE · architecture
• Roman triumph — 300 BCE · spiritual
• Hannibal — 246 BCE · people
• Battle of Utica — 239 BCE · battle
• Scipio Africanus — 234 BCE · people
• Dying Gaul — 220 BCE · artifact
• Battle of the Trebia — 217 BCE · battle
• Battle of Cannae — 215 BCE · battle
• Hierapolis — 190 BCE · architecture
• Battle of Pydna — 167 BCE · battle
• Battle of Beth Zechariah — 161 BCE · battle
• Gaius Marius — 157 BCE · people
• Corinth — 146 BCE · architecture
• Battle of Corinth — 145 BCE · battle
• Sulla — 137 BCE · people
• Siege of Numantia — 133 BCE · battle
• Spartacus — 109 BCE · people
• Cicero — 106 BCE · people
• Pompey — 105 BCE · people
• Roman temple — 100 BCE · spiritual
• Julius Caesar — 99 BCE · people
• Alexander Mosaic — 99 BCE · art
• Vercingetorix — 79 BCE · people
• Augustus — 62 BCE · people
• Battle of Carrhae — 52 BCE · battle
• Battle of Alesia — 51 BCE · battle
• Battle of Pharsalus — 47 BCE · battle
• Battle of Thapsus — 45 BCE · battle
• Battle of Munda — 44 BCE · battle
• Ovid — 42 BCE · people
• Battle of Philippi — 41 BCE · battle
• Tiberius — 41 BCE · people
• Battle of Actium — 30 BCE · battle
• Mérida — 25 BCE · architecture
• Nîmes — 20 BCE · architecture
• Augustus of Prima Porta — 19 BCE · artifact
• Caesarea Maritima — 12 BCE · architecture
• Claudius — 9 BCE · people
• Ara Pacis — 8 BCE · architecture
• Laocoön and His Sons — 1 BCE · artifact
• Battle of the Teutoburg Forest — 9 CE · battle
• Vespasian — 9 CE · people
• Gemma Augustea — 10 CE · artifact
• Caligula — 12 CE · people
• Nero — 37 CE · people
• Titus — 39 CE · people
• Pont du Gard — 50 CE · architecture
• Trajan — 53 CE · people
• Baalbek — 60 CE · architecture
• Siege of Masada — 72 CE · battle
• Hadrian — 76 CE · people
• Colosseum — 82 CE · architecture
• Battle of Mons Graupius — 84 CE · battle
• Vindolanda — 85 CE · architecture
• Djemila — 96 CE · architecture
• Timgad — 100 CE · architecture
• Portland Vase — 100 CE · artifact
• Aphrodisias — 100 CE · architecture
• Vindolanda tablets — 100 CE · artifact
• Fayum mummy portraits — 100 CE · artifact
• Roman mosaic — 100 CE · art
• Roman sculpture — 100 CE · art
• Battle of Tapae — 101 CE · battle
• Bosra — 106 CE · architecture
• Trajan's Column — 113 CE · architecture
• Trajan's Market — 113 CE · architecture
• Marcus Aurelius — 121 CE · people
• Hadrian's Wall — 122 CE · architecture
• Pantheon — 128 CE · architecture
• Jerash — 130 CE · architecture
• Septimius Severus — 146 CE · people
• Commodus — 161 CE · people
• Caracalla — 188 CE · people
• Aqueduct of Segovia — 200 CE · architecture
• Sabratha — 200 CE · architecture
• Aurelian — 214 CE · people
• Baths of Caracalla — 216 CE · architecture
• Diocletian — 240 CE · people
• Constantine the Great — 272 CE · people
• Diocletian's Palace — 293 CE · architecture
• Gamzigrad — 298 CE · architecture
• Battle of the Milvian Bridge — 312 CE · battle
• Edict of Milan — 313 CE · spiritual
• Arch of Constantine — 315 CE · architecture
• Piazza Armerina — 320 CE · art
• Theodosius I — 347 CE · people
• Lycurgus Cup — 350 CE · artifact
• Battle of Adrianople — 378 CE · battle
• 410 sack of Rome — 410 CE · battle
• Battle of the Catalaunian Plains — 451 CE · battle
• Battle of Dara — 530 CE · battle
• Tabula Peutingeriana — 1180 CE · artifact