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To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
This clip shows an artist designing a one-of-a-kind skateboard inspired by Roman history. Viewers see the creative process ...
London researchers recently reconstructed large Roman plaster collection, revealing vibrant frescoes hidden for 1,800 years ...
Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...
An mosaic panel on travertine slabs depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era has been returned to the archaeological park of Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German captain during World War II ...
An erotic Ancient Roman mosaic stolen by a Wehrmacht officer in 1944 and given to a German citizen was returned to its rightful home at Pompeii in a ceremony by Italy's crack art cops Tuesday. The ...
Sometimes, we don’t love the person who loves us. Ancient Greeks and Romans also had a lot to say about this subject.
Two dozen Caravaggio paintings from museums and private collectors across the world are on display in Rome's Palazzo ...
Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...
The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.