When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her ...

Breakthrough in mystery of life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emi ...

ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

While circumcision was common in many ancient cultures, the Romans considered it undesirable. In certain parts of the Empire, ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...