However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Running in Rome is one of the best ways to see the sights and beat the crowds, a local art historian and runner shares.

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

From Tower Hill in the East to Blackfriars Station in the West, the wall stretched for two miles around the ancient City of ... as it stood upon the main Roman road linking London to Colchester.

In the ancient world, there were far more radical changes to the way people observed and formalised time. The changes to the calendars used by the Romans ... professor of history at the University ...

I first heard Himmat Shah saying this to artist Pooja Iranna as I followed them around during Shah’s retrospective, “Hammer of the Square,” at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA ... Lothal—an ancient ...

a fascinating aspect of ancient art has come to light: the use of perfumes and aromatic substances in ancient Greek and Roman statues. This revelation challenges the long-held view of classical ...

Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any ... the majority of the basilica and forum were lost into the annals of history until the ...

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast ... it was a thriving center of Hellenistic and Roman art, culture, and trade. Few people have inhabited the area since the third century CE ...