Every summer, changes take place at Louvre Abu Dhabi without fanfare. There are no big banners or special announcements, yet the permanent galleries undergo a subtle shift. New loans and acquisitions ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

Whether it our own family legacy or the history of the world, there has never been a more important time to remember the ...

Now, let's delve into solving the Roman garment crossword clue, featured as 18 Down in the USA Today Crossword on July 3, ...

Slightly Stoopid, Neil Diamond tribute and ballet gala top our list of fun things to do on the Space Coast this weekend.

One study observes that these positions combined faith with significant influence. Reading the man’s attire The male figure is dressed in a toga that drapes in a straightforward style, indicating ...

They’re going tit for tat. The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed bare boob, according to a report. The ...

V isitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls.

Priestesses, in the Roman world, held unusual levels of power for women – and it’s been suggested that this woman might have been a priestess of the goddess Ceres (Roman equivalent of Demeter). So ...

The woman sports amphorae-shaped earings, a wedding ring, a bracelet, and an amulet carved in the shape of a crescent moon, a Roman maiden’s traditional decoration before marriage, called a lunula.

He, meanwhile, is dressed in the quintessentially Roman toga that instantly identifies him as a proud male citizen of Rome. Who do the statues depict? The status quo in archaeology, when a woman and a ...