When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

All parts of the Greek and later Roman world were built upon exploiting either their conquered foes or those with the simple misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite its ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

For the ancient Romans, the roads and paths leading into ... She’s draped in a modest tunic, cloak and veil (symbols of Roman ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

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

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two near-lifesize sculptures in a Pompeii tomb, shedding new light on the city's elite.