Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

Archaeologists found the pillar by chance during the summer excavation season in 2023 while they were searching for the ...

AN ancient Pompeii home filled with saucy paintings and unseen art has been uncovered 2,000 years after it was buried under volcanic ash. This unusually small and extravagantly decorated home, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved house in ancient Pompeii, featuring frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and ...

Archaeologists consider this votive monument the largest of its kind discovered in the Roman-occupied regions of southern ...

Recent excavations uncovered a Roman monument at the Open-Air Museum of the Roman villa of Hechingen-Stein, Germany. The ...

The house is striking for the high level of wall decorations. It has been provisionally named the House of Phaedra after the ...

In its announcement of the house’s excavation this week, the Pompeii Archaeological Park compared the little domicile to the ...

In true Ancient Roman fashion, you can build temples to the gods — Minerva, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, Apollo, and Ceres. Once their place of worship has been built, you need to raise the faith level ...

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered an unusually tiny house with well-preserved frescoes of mythological ...

Students study Classical languages and literatures in addition to art history and archaeology; economic, political, social and intellectual history; and philosophy, religion and myth. Ancient Greek ...