At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... One of the sculptures is a striking 2-metre-high statue of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, sitting on a base depicting ...

Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including the Forum of Peace in Rome, dedicated by Emperor Vespasian; the Library of ...

The pope was admitted to hospital on February 14 where he is fighting a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia in both ...

From Sharjah to Rome via the Spice Route': Exhibition highlights historic Arab-Roman ties ... on display include Roman glass flasks, a bronze statue of Venus, statuettes of the deity Aphrodite ...

Rome is easily the closest thing you'll ever ... artefacts are still being recovered – a bronze arm believed to belong to a colossal statue of Neptune was found just a few months ago.

Representing a united heritage and respect for the collective history of our world, this is how to visit all seven modern ...

Trajan’s Column (built in Rome in AD 113 with the spoils from the Dacian wars in what is now eastern Europe), there is not a single gesture akin to a Roman salute. Nor do we have any statues of ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Europe's royal palaces are not only architectural wonders but play an important role in the culture and history of their ...