When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.

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

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologis ...

A spectacular stone head, possibly representing a bearded male deity, has been discovered in the archaeological area of the ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment ... decade into the art of antiquity that has found that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors.

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

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

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...