In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are ...

Top Spanish chefs have endorsed garum as a fishy sauce with deep roots in Spanish and Roman ... as the ancient sauce produced in Cádiz. Rather, “it’s the garum they were making in Pompeii ...

At one end was a raised platform, and there were circular indentations in the ground where large terra-cotta pots, or dolia, would have been set in an ancient Roman cella vinaria—a wine pressing ...

Taking the train from Rome to Naples, you’ll find yourself in a city with a unique charm and energy. Naples is home to the ...

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...