When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ancient world’s most ...

The Alexander Mosaic is considered "the most important mosaic of the Roman age," the authors wrote in the study. It depicts Alexander, who ruled from 336 to 323 B.C., ...

Discovered in 1831 in the House of the Faun—a wealthy family's residence in the Roman city of Pompeii—the mosaic depicts Alexander the Great on horseback, leading the Macedonian army to victory over ...

Alexander the Great is remembered today for his military conquests and empire-expanding activities (and perhaps for being the main character in that 2004 movie with terrible accents). Born in 356 ...

The Alexander Mosaic, housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), is one of the most significant works of Roman antiquity.This mosaic, with monumental dimensions (583 x 325 cm) and ...

The mosaic allegedly depicting Alexander the Great was excavated in stages between 2013 and 2015. “Only a portion of it had been released to the public previously,” Magness told FoxNews.com.

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

If Herakles was the family ancestor, and Achilles the spirit reincarnated in Alexander, then so much was genetically to be expected. And if we take a close look at the hero’s wild hair on the ...

In her interpretation, the mosaic would have delivered a message of affirmation. “The whole point of the Alexander legend is to show that even Alexander the Great, the greatest of the Greek ...

After Alexander, when art made the world smaller. June 18, 2016 “The Akropolis of Pergamon,” by Friedrich von Thiersch, 1882. Pen and ink with watercolor on canvas.