The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and ...

Italy may be one of the most visited countries in the world, yet beyond the Colosseum, the canals, and the cathedrals lie ...

The Nicholas Lanier portrait that I came across so unexpectedly at Frieze Masters doesn’t have the prestige of the ...

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

The Italian capital is witnessing a wave of excitement as it prepares to unveil one of the most anticipated cultural events ...

The project has been almost 100 years in the making, when one of the Ringling brothers bought thousands of works from the ...

Long before the Roman Empire came along, the Ancient Greeks controlled much of southern Italy. From the 8th to the 5th centuries BC, intrepid Greek settlers transformed this region into a mosaic of ...

Explore Rome's Trevi Fountain (1762), a sculpted landmark fed by ancient aqueducts. Visit the nearby Baroque Church of Saint Vincent (1646), notable for housing the hearts of 22 popes. London people ...

Archaeologists working on Rome's Metro Line C have uncovered three remarkable 15th-century bronze medals bearing the image of Pope Paul II, providing unprecedented insight into Renaissance-era ...

A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the ...