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

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

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.

Some talent and a fortune could bring the gods back to earth ... works of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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

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

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture ... artists in ancient ...

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

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

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 ...