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 Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” is perhaps the most recognizable and widely known symbol of Emperor Nero’s extravagant ambitions; built between 65 and 68 AD after the Gr ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gold artifact inscribed with ancient Greek text dedicated to Jupiter at a Roman fortress ...

The Manhattan D.A. has obtained an arrest warrant for notorious antiquities dealer Edoardo Almagià for allegedly selling ...

A pair of keen-eyed anglers noticed something abnormal sticking out of the seafloor off the coast of Sicily, Italy. When marine archaeologists investigated, they found dozens of rare ancient items.

The Venus de Milo is one of the most representative statues of ancient Greece, it is immediately recognizable by its missing ...

What if you spent eternity in one living room? That's the premise of Here, a new drama starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as ...

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

Archaeologists working near a 900-year-old palace in Cambodia set out to search for rocks. But their project quickly took a ...

Described as possessing "astonishing beauty", two heads of ancient statues of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Dionysus, the god of wine, have been uncovered in an archaeological dig in the ancient ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...

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