The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

After nearly 2,000 years of being covered by volcanic ash, this beautiful fresco gets to see the light of day. It was ...

A few months after Philadelphia ceramics artist Roberto Lugo graduated with a master’s of fine arts from Penn State, he set out to drive to Florida to visit family for Christmas. In Macon, Ga., four ...

A unique opportunity to test ancient Egyptian perfumes is underway in an exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir ...

Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...

Two 16-year-old girls reported to the authorities on Thursday (13/2) that a man sexually harassed them in a department store on Dimokratias Avenue in Ilion, Athens. According to the complaints, the ...

the museum’s curator of Greek and Roman art. “So, we were able to compare the physical models of our statue's feet to those cuttings to see where they best fit. And then we also did a similar ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek government’s chief seismologist says the frequency of earthquakes affecting Santorini and nearby islands has eased in recent days, but that the outlook for ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

including artifacts returned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art at Fordham University; and the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. Fourteen of the 15 ...

For the first time in two millennia, a Roman scroll, carbonised by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption ... Although the full content of the scroll remains to be read, they have identified the Ancient Greek term ...