With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess ... the head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE-14CE), and the body created under ...

The head, carved during the reign of Emperor Augustus (31 BC-14 CE), has been ... 659 sets the stage for “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” a highly ...

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

She says the statue ... with powerful Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. According to lore, she took her own life at 39 after losing her kingdom when Octavian (later Augustus) defeated ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

It is because he is a Roman who absorbed his heritage from infancy, the way Romulus and Remus, the descendants of Aeneas, suckled in Rome’s essence from the Capitoline She-Wolf, whose statue ...

Want to see a destination from the best vantage? Up the altitude. Here are the top spots from which to appreciate the Eternal ...