The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Griswold, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The announcement comes on the heels of an agreement with Turkey on another statue earlier this month. An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue that ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Summer courses are set to take students back in time to explore ancient civilizations and mythologies that continue to shape ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me ... Earthquakes, too, took a very heavy toll. The Roman poet Horace’s advice to “seize the day ...

It is one of the wonders of the world, attracting millions of visitors every year. But those now in Rome hoping to admire the ...

Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...