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

Unused paints are generally rare finds for archaeologists — but not at Pompeii. Take a look at “almost the entire palette of an ancient painter.” ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

Ancient buildings like Greece’s amphitheaters and Japan’s temples remain in use today, preserving cultural heritage.

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university students expected to find some ancient Roman artifacts but what emerged shocked ...

A recent study offers new insights into the pigments used by ancient Roman artists in Pompeii, revealing how they mixed raw ...

Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

The site became known as the Dragulin villa cemetery, part of the Tragurium communal necropolis in the Roman city of Tragurium, researchers said in a study published March 1 in the Journal of ...

The scientific article titled 'Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials' has just been published ...