Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.
But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...
Bloomberg uncovered 14,000 Roman artifacts beneath its London headquarters in the 2010s. It's gifting them to the London ...
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
Thousands of Roman artefacts found during building work given to London Museum - The finds were uncovered at the site of a 3rd century AD temple to the Roman god Mithras, in the modern-day City of ...
Archeologists claim to have found the resting place of one of only a handful of the Abydos Dynasty's kings, after around ...
Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...
While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...
New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...
Emilia Zankina, Dean of Temple University Rome, shares insights on study-abroad programs and the benefits of cultural and intellectual exchange in Italy.
Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any other in Britain. Occupying nearly 2 hectares of land and standing at a height of up to 3 ...
The Pantheon was originally built during the reign of Emperor Augustus in 27 B.C.E. by the general Marcus Agrippa as a temple to the Roman gods. Its name, derived from the Greek words pan (meaning ...