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New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.
The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...
Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...
The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with more voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.
With the art market outlook uncertain, the New York fair aims to keep collectors coming, with a wide array of art and ...
New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.
Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy ... fortune in banking beginning in the late 18th ...
Downloads of the 2024 film have surged since the death of Pope Francis—but in the 16th and 17th century, it was etchings that ...
The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...
The mosaics survived because they were protected by a 14th-century synagogue ... toward figural art during the late Roman period was ambiguous. Rabban Gamliel was the first head of the Sanhedrin ...