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

Authorities in New York have obtained an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià, a prominent Italian antiquities dealer accused ...

Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture, from Hollywood blockbusters to video games. Since its establishment in 31 B.C., the Roman Empire exerted its influence throughout the Mediterranean and ...

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

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

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

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

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

An Antonine emperor from half a millenium later follows, and then we have a figure of a terracotta horseman from the Byzantine period, the name used for the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, which was ...

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

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

When Constantine needed a unifying agent to hold his empire together, he chose Christianity as his religious glue.