ROME (AP) — The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce ...

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

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

At TEFAF Maastricht 2025, Old Masters meet Minimalism, and medieval armor stands alongside Warhol and Art Deco. See highlights here.

These materials showcase many aspects, like how artisans garnered the colors they needed in yesteryears and the items that ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

Stefano Pessina spent half a century building a pharmacy behemoth that stretches almost three times further than the Roman empire ever did. Now he may have to watch it come apart. This week ...

Researchers from Guard Archaeology believe the brooch could shine a light on the way people in ancient Scotland interacted with Roman soldiers guarding Hadrian's Wall. The brooch was thought to be ...

As far back as the 8th century B.C.E., the city of Corinth served as the beating heart of the Mediterranean’s commerce. Lechaion, its sea port, was at the very core of its success. A new study ...

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city Eli Wizevich History ...

Credit: Murat Beşbudak / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a grand Greco-Roman residential complex ... Its extensive city wall surrounded marvelous monumental ...