A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.
What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...
As part of its ongoing preparations for the Roman Space Telescope, NASA has installed a key ‘sunblock’ shield designed to ...