Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings.

The painting serves as an allegory of alchemy ... Caravaggio dresses him as an ancient Roman soldier, breaking from his usual contemporary clothing. A towering horse dominates the frame, its ...

But the 58 ancient works ... artists in ancient Rome were Greeks, some enslaved, who were adapting images from their homeland's cultural peak. Historians of Western art have long presented such ...

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

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

have conceived 'Spazio Opis - Art Gallery,' a unique place to breathe international air thanks to the ancient Roman deity Opi, the personification of abundance. To inaugurate the blend of art and ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.