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 beloved ancient Greek sculpture called "The Boxer at Rest," from 330-50 BC, is one of the most realistic of all ancient ...

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

Archaeologists consider this votive monument the largest of its kind discovered in the Roman-occupied regions of southern ...

Ancient Roman ruins in Baalbek, a historic city in Lebanon, survived an initial wave of Israeli air strikes this week, ...

Art Out of the Museum seeks to connect artwork in need of restoration with sponsorship by local hotels to showcase artifacts ...

Seeing his painting in dialogue with this ancient Venus sculpture reminds us of the enduring ... Right before his trip to Modena, Basquiat visited Rome with his girlfriend Suzanne Mallouk, whom ...

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

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

Barracks emperor – any Roman Emperor who seized power by virtue of his command of the army. Barracks emperors were especially common in the period from 235 through 284, during the Crisis of the Third ...