Amid the chaos of the 2024 presidential election, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents“Power of the People: Art and ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

The clash between men and Amazons, a mythical tribe of female warriors from the exoticized “East,” was a common motif in Greek monumental and Roman funerary art. This version has no dominating hero or ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

The exhibition is organised into three chapters, over three rooms: the promise, the practice and the preservation of democracy. The first looks at the way societies have idealised democracy, ...

The Israeli army has issued new evacuation orders for residents of Baalbek, home to Ancient Roman temples and archaeological ...

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

This sculpture adorned a Roman garden or fountain, or possibly a child’s grave. Cupid (“Desire”), the Greek Eros, god of love, is represented as a young boy asleep on a rock covered with Herakles’s ...

From the heart of Mesopotamia to the heights of the Roman Empire, ancient civilizations have left an indelible mark on the ...