The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

Once this road was completed, Trajan ordered the placement of a commemorative inscription. Thus, in the same year 103 AD, on a rock wall at the Iron Gates, the Latin inscription known today as Tabula ...

Jon Coulston, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a leading scholar on the iconography of Trajan’s column in Rome, one of the most detailed military monuments to survive from the Roman Empire.

A spectacular exhibition explains how the extraordinary monument of the Trajan Column was built, raised by the emperor Trajan in the heart of Rome to celebrate the conquest of Dacia, today’s ...

Analysis of Trajan's Column shows depiction of six women or girls - despite being banned from army. Anna Muncey/Flickr A 2,000-year-old monument has shed new light on the lives of Roman soldiers ...

The towering reproduction of Trajan’s Column has been one of the London institution’s star exhibits—and its largest object—for nearly 150 years. But from 1 December, visitors will be able ...