Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

During a recent excavation on the grounds of a mansion in Slovakia, researchers discovered something remarkable: a Roman aqueduct—the first one ever found in the country. Dating back to the second ...

A mass grave containing multiple interlinked skeletal remains has been discovered in Vienna, Austria.As reported by NBC, on ...

Rome was a multiethnic, multilinguistic empire, happy to adopt wholesale ... Image Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection Through June 29 at the Art Institute ...

The belief that Jesus died on the cross but rose three days later and ascended into heaven is the central tenet of ...

Archaeologists have known that Greco-Roman statues were coloured ... Europe to stand out from the colourful art of the Ottoman Empire. This cultural contrast was strengthened in the 20 th century ...

To avoid confusion, we will focus on the Western Roman Empire, before transferring its capital to Constantinople. This marble statue, known as “Augustus of Prima Porta,” depicts Emperor Augustus in a ...

An additional discovery of coins and pots from the Constantinian era prove that there were inhabitants at the site until late in the Roman Empire. The Aiola region has plenty more history to offer ...

The Ionian Revolt constituted the first major conflict between Greece and the Persian Empire, and as such ... 53 Numerous remains of statues, vandalized by the Achaemenids, have been found, known ...

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