The Parthenon is a gem of ancient Greek architecture for its perfect appearance, but its perfection results from optical ...
A maximum of 20,000 people will be allowed to enter each day in an effort to protect the historic site in Italy, where ...
The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...
A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, ...
The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5-million ...
The film follows the son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus who has been living under a new identity to escape Roman politics.
Collections in the exhibit are staged in 79 A.D., just hours before life in the ancient Italian city was lost in time after ...
The original statues of the Christus and the apostles were made of plaster, and are currently inside the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The completed marble Christus was placed inside the Church of ...
The sun rises behind the Ara Pacis Mundi in Medea, Italy, on Nov. 5, 2024. Its name translates to Altar of World Peace.
The Temple of Poseidon was once lost but scientists have discovered the structure dedicated to the Ancient Greek God of water ...
Microsoft teams with the Vatican and French startup Iconem to create an intricately detailed digital twin of St. Peter’s ...