The bronze statue head of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, which was taken from the Boubon Ancient City in Burdur, Turkey approximately 60 years ago, was returned to Turkey from Denmark's NY ...

When the Roman emperor Septimius Severus restored the statues in hopes of gaining favor with Memnon, they ceased speaking their oracles. As you move around the Colossus, which is the northern one ...

Qaddafi correctly viewed the statue as a threat. For Septimius Severus stood as a wistful reminder of what Libya had once been: a Mediterranean region of immense cultural and economic wealth ...