A unique gold coin struck 2,000 years ago during the reign of Roman Empire founder Augustus Caesar has sold for a £480,000. The gold coin - called an aureus - was made between 27BC and 18BC and ...
An Israeli hiker has found a very rare and precious gold coin bearing the face of Emperor Augustin and dating from 107 AD. Laurie Rimon had been travelling with a group to visit an archaeological site ...
AUGUSTUS: FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 624 pages Caesar Augustus remains the person in the ancient world whose image is the most recognizable, surviving to ...
His handsome and eternally youthful face topped with blond curls in imitation of Alexander the Great – more images survive of Caesar Augustus than any other human being from the ancient world. Like ...