The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Planning a trip to Rome is all about preparation. The Eternal City is full of history, architecture, and culture. It’s more ...

Surprisingly, "we don't know enough about just who made these marbles," though it's suspected that many artists in ancient ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

The reuse of sculptures in Christian buildings was not uncommon ... revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion in ancient Rome.… On the vast canvas of the cosmos, ...

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once painted ... particularly for sculptures depicting deities. According to sources from ...

Stroll through the cobblestone streets of the charming Città Antica and visit the Casa di Giulietta, home to Shakespeare’s ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his "humble, simple and essential" life.