While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

The recent IMSA racing debut of the Aston Martin Valkyrie was a reminder of the enduring appeal to vehicle makers of model names taken from ancient mythologies and religions. We’re not sure that it’s ...

As an immigrant temporary professed Trinitarian friar in Maryland, Marvin Santos reflects on how the tangled legacy of faith, ...

It was bad luck for the owner of a portrait of a lovely young Roman model, when the future King Edward VII walked into the ...

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste ...

The “Caravaggio 2025” exhibition in Rome represents a symbolic return of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, to the ...

You can see the Caravaggio ceiling at the evicted American princess's mansion as an extension of the artist's blockbuster ...

In her article, Brøns notes that some oils and waxes were also used to protect and preserve the statues and their paint. Verity Platt, a professor at Cornell University's Department of Classics who ...

The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa was sprayed with pink paint on Thursday morning by a supporter of a climate action group that also targeted a Tesla dealership in Montreal the day before. Footage ...

Credit: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. In the study, Blodgett painted model ships with dazzle patterns and placed them in a mock battle theater. He then observed them at a ...

“If it’s a classical room, for instance, then we know it’s built on principles from Greek and Roman architecture,” explains interior ... touches—like when you can see brushstrokes in The Painted Room ...