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Houston's holiday season will have a distinctly Roman feeling this year, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is bringing the ...
Archaeologists in Rome uncovered a colossal ancient marble head near Trajan’s Forum, possibly depicting Emperor Trajan or the ...
The world’s largest archaeological museum, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), is officially opening next month. Here are seven of the must-see highlights. 1 Hanging obelisk ...
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (Naples National Archeological Museum) is ranked #5 out of 9 things to do in Naples, Italy. See pictures and our review of Museo Archeologico Nazionale di ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) – In the ahupuaʻa of Honolulu, which lies in the moku of Kona here on Oʻahu, stands a symbol of Hawaiian pride. We are speaking of King Kamehameha I Statue. What was ...
The Terracotta Army statues were commissioned by emperor Qin Shi around 210 B.C. so that he could take with him an army to the afterlife. The army is composed of about 8,000 individual warriors ...
Now, another tourist attraction can be added as the antiquities ministry has resumed restoration work at the archaeological site of Marina Al-Alamein, which was a major Greco-Roman town and port ...
A man broke into the terracotta army museum in Xi’an, China last Friday, damaging two of the ancient clay warriors—some of China’s most prized archaeological treasures—before being ...
Centuries-old Chinese artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi, China, leapt over a guardrail and into a pit. On ...
According to a statement from public security officials, reported by the Guardian, the 30-year-old was visiting the museum housing the terracotta army in the city of Xi’an, central China, on 30 ...
U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...