In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on Friday opens the biggest exhibition ever devoted to art inspired by "Metamorphoses", Roman poet ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

Italy is making its artistic treasures more accessible to people with disabilities. Michela Marcato, who has been blind since ...

Archaeologists in Spain found a single elephant bone among Carthaginian weapons, offering rare physical evidence linked to ...

The recent restoration of a chapel came with a surprise: an angel depicted with the likeness of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ...

Rome is weighed down with ancient and Baroque masterpieces, yet its most disconcerting museum dates from 2010 and slices ...

Italy's art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual ...

A strange story gets stranger.

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

Archaeologists found Greek and Roman cooking pots in one Roman city were made the same way, revealing shared daily life.

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.