Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

An ancient carved stone head, possibly of a Roman god or philosopher, was uncovered beneath a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy.

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful ... and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

(Andrew Medichini/AP) Construction in Rome, from ancient buildings to restoration projects today, has often involved the reuse and recycling of materials, said Renata Cristina Mazzantini, an art ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the ...