For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

Greco-Roman art has been studied for centuries through ... suggests that the sensory experience of ancient spectators was much richer than previously thought. Bust of Queen Berenike II of Egypt, in ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a yet unknown Egyptian pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago during a time of political ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors ... Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the ...

The modern museum traces its origins to the “kunstkammer” literally an “art room” that stored and displayed works of art.

For a long time, those 7,000 years mainly encompassed pre-20th-century objects: Egyptian figurines, Roman busts, African masks ... incorporates two fragments of ancient Roman marble statuary ...