Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

The Roman salute is conditionally allowed in Italy and outright banned in Germany. German chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to ...

The artifact was sold and subsequently lost in the international art market before being rediscovered in New York in 2018.

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a trove of 141 ancient Roman coins worth more than €300,000 ($310,000).

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

A specialist in Roman social and cultural history, political theory and law, Champlin joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

A farmer discovered a 900-square-foot mosaic from the third century in his field in Turkey. Covered by a thin layer of soil, ...

The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ...

Winkler, who wrote a book about the salute. There is no Roman art, writing, or coins that display the gesture, according to Winkler. "The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ...

Headless skeletons, feral bears and female fighters – a new British Museum show revolutionises our understanding of life in ...