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 ...

On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome's Colosseum, a small group of people walked around ...

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

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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 ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city with as much culture off the silver screen as on it.

A strange story gets stranger.