Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them. Neither were they taught how to write, so they ...

In the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in Spain, researchers have unearthed over 4,000 fragments of murals painted in the ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

The Barberes Sur excavation covered more than 842 square meters of the large villa. The residence features lavish rooms ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings.

Notable results include the identification of the first known use of a new gray color in Pompeian art. The presence of barite and alunite in the pigments provides the first evidence of the use of ...

But art lovers don’t have to wait for any real ... titled “Caravaggio 2025,” is part of the celebrations for the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee year in Rome. The Villa Aurora was the ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...