Rome: City and Empire

Rome: City and Empire was an exhibition from the British Museum that captured the grandeur of the vast empire of ancient Rome and shared stories of everyday life, worship, war, glory and death, through more than 200 beautiful objects.

Highlights included a gold and jasper sealstone ring depicting Mark Antony, an ancient carved marble head of a woman resembling Cleopatra and a Pompeii fresco.

Rome: City and Empire was on show at the National Museum of Australia from 21 September 2018 to 3 February 2019.

• Rome: City and Empire
• Major British Museum collections coming to National Museum of Australia

The presentation of this exhibition was a collaboration between the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia. Images © The Trustees of the British Museum, 2018. All rights reserved

Further reading

Rome: City and Empire, British Museum