The Centaur! He was of saffron coat, but on the rump and tail he was rabid, with two legs he leaped, his equine back ...

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

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

The moon has long held a cherished place in Indian imagination—its gentle glow casting more than just light, but also a sense ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient ... to art, theology and natural ...