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Roman rule in Britain developed between 43 and 410 CE, reshaping the island from a mosaic of tribal societies into a province integrated into the political, economic...

A recreation of the Roman empress Valeria Messalina (c. 20-22 CE-48 CE), wife of the emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 CE). Messalina's facial features are very loosely based on a combination of Roman portraits and artistic...

The Death of Messalina, oil on canvas painting by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, 1916. Depicted here is the killing of Valeria Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius.

A 17th-century map by Jan van Loon of the cosmos as proposed by the astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 - c. 170 CE).

Marble head of Empress Agrippina (The Younger) 15-59 CE, wife of Emperor Claudius. (Archaeological Museum, Milan)

A 19th century CE painting by Claudius Jacquand showing Sir Thomas More (1478-1535 CE) with his wife and daughter during his imprisonment in the Tower of London for treason against Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547...

Caractacus Led in Triumph Through Rome, lithographic print by John Linnell the Younger after the cartoon by George Frederick Watts, 1847. Caratacus (or Caractacus) was a Briton chieftain who made war against the...

The remains of the tomb marker of Roman commander Marcus Claudius Marcellus who was killed in an ambush in the town in 208 BCE. Venusia, modern Venosa, southern Italy.

Caractacus, illustration by William Callis Roffe after the statue by John Henry Foley, 1860. Roffe's illustration captures Foley's heroic representation of Caratacus (or Caractacus), the Briton chieftain who...

Marble head of Titus Flavius Orestes, from Herakleia Lynkestis, near Bitola, North Macedonia, c. 1st-2nd century CE. Archaeological Museum of Heraclea, Bitola. The marble head was located in the colonnaded courthouse...