hadrian

March 20, 2023
At midday on the Spring Equinox, light streams in through the twenty-seven foot diameter oculus of the Pantheon and aligns perfectly with the doorway.

February 25, 2018
When Roman Emperor Hadrian died on 10 July 138, he left, as did his predecessors, an adopted son as his successor, Antoninus Pius.

October 8, 2017
Roman Treasures Unearthed in England

November 27, 2016
On 27 November 111, Antinous (the man who became first the companion of the Emperor Hadrian) was Born.

July 10, 2016
Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hādriānus), whose far-flung adventures inspired the commission of some of the Rome’s most enduring and storied monuments, died on 10 July in 138.

March 8, 2016
The final “act” of the “Five Good Emperors”: Emperor Marcus Aurelius assumed his rule of Rome on 8 March 161 CE.

March 7, 2015
Roman emperor Antoninus Pius died on 7 March 161 CE in Lorium, an ancient Etruscan village on the Via Aurelia, less than twelve miles west of Rome.

November 30, 2013
The Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project was created by the World Heritage Laboratory between 2007 and 2012.

July 21, 2013
Fauno rosso, Roman, 2nd century C.E.