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

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed ...

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

A strange story gets stranger.

The octagonal courtyard also houses extraordinary displays like the Casali Altar with its depiction of Venus and Mars, the Judgment of Paris, and scenes from the Trojan War, connecting Roman religious ...

Protected by a now-collapsed adobe wall, archaeologists found a single carpal bone belonging to an elephant.

The Cyclades are a treasure trove of archaeological sites, offering a glimpse into the rich history of the Aegean.

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

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

Some of the world’s earliest-known graffiti artists in Italy carved into rock tens of thousands of images from the mundane to the mystical, recording scenes from the twilight of the Stone Age to the ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.