Based on these ancient sources, two separate methods of applying perfumes to Greco-Roman statues can be identified. The first ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

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Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

The cargo ship was found laden with hundreds of Roman pottery jars, most of which are intact. The house, featuring erotic art and bronze statues, was the epitome of wealth in ancient times.

The daily work grind is a routine that can be traced back centuries. People in ancient Rome got up, went to work and did it all over again the next day. But this routine is not the only thing workers ...

It is kind of ancient Rome’s Popbitch”, he commented. “It is full of scandal, and extraordinary detail, but it is also very psychologically astute. It has the quality of a very highbrow ...

Francis Ford Coppola used Rome as the guiding metaphor for his lifelong project Megalopolis. Our legal language is packed with Latinate homage. OK! We get it! Ancient Rome dominates The Culture and ...