Just when you thought the summer of tourists behaving ... into pieces at the Vatican on Wednesday. The episode took place in the Museo Chiaramonti, part of the Vatican Museums, around lunchtime.

An American tourist on Wednesday threw a tantrum and cracked two Roman busts in the Vatican Museums after officials denied him an audience with Pope Francis. The unidentified tourist, said to be ...

According to legend and the Vatican Museums’ own website, Laocoon warned his fellow Trojans against accepting the wooden horse left by the Greeks during the Trojan War. The group said the ...

The trial stemmed from an Aug. 18 protest in the Vatican Museums, during which Viero and Goffi glued their hands to the base of the Laocoon statue, one of the most important ancient works in the ...

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