A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

the ancient Roman city more famously buried and preserved under volcanic ash, like Herculaneum, when Vesuvius erupted. Mann is fascinated by the finding that brains could be vitrified and by ...

Excavators also unearthed several Ptolemaic-era bronze coins, plus "a large collection of terracotta statues depicting human and animal forms from the Greco-Roman period, and small stone statues ...

The Fendi sisters—one of Italy’s most famous fashion families—share a special love for the Eternal City. Here, a look at the Roman homes of three of the sisters, all women of high style.

The cast-bronze sculpture, which has been on display at the entrance to the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries since ... were offered as votive gifts in ancient Greek sanctuaries from the sixth ...

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 ...

Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned an ancient bronze griffin ... Curator in Charge of Greek and Roman Art at The Met, noted that while there are hundreds of ...

In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government. In antiquity ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin ... be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah.

The origin of the Huns in fourth-century Europe has long been debated, but centuries-old DNA has revealed their diverse backgrounds.