Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

AN ancient Pompeii home filled with saucy paintings and unseen art has been uncovered 2,000 years after it was buried under volcanic ash. This unusually small and extravagantly decorated home, ...

Despite lacking a traditional atrium, the house's lavish frescoes rival those of grander homes, highlighting changing Roman ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

Archaeologists consider this votive monument the largest of its kind discovered in the Roman-occupied regions of southern ...

During the dig, the team uncovered a “unique” gold plaque with a Greek inscription dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus, a ...

Stained glass is breaking free from the confines of window frames. Modern artists are incorporating it into lampshades, wall ...

This has been observed in concrete from another 2,000-year-old site, the Tomb of Caecilia Metella, where cracks in the ...

The Israeli army has issued new evacuation orders for residents of Baalbek, home to Ancient Roman temples and archaeological ...

Ancient Roman ruins in Baalbek, a historic city in Lebanon, survived an initial wave of Israeli air strikes this week, ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...