Christie’s was set this month to sell the 17th century painting known as Saint Sébastien, by Greek master El Greco, but ...

They’re taking aim at this saintly work. The Romanian government is suing Christie’s auction house and a Russian billionaire ...

The venomous centipede crawled into the Movile Cave millions of years ago and adapted to live in the pitch black, surrounded ...

Perseus of Macedon was the last Greek king of ancient Greece before it came under Roman rule following defeat in the Battle ...

It focused on love and sex. His work was playful and made him the Roman king of the flirts. Although his writing was superb, his timing was awful. The popularity of his carefree attitude to sex ...

Roman worship was divided into the public and ... was always the emperor. The king of sacred things The rex sacrorum, meaning “king of sacred things” was a patrician appointed for life and ...

According to Christie’s catalogue entry on the El Greco (now removed from Christie’s website), King Carol I of Romania acquired the painting by 1898 and bequeathed it to the institution of the ...

Romania's DIICOT unit ... his critics of "twisting facts", although he has also described himself as the "king of toxic masculinity". In the week before his arrest last year, Tate sparked a ...