ROME (Reuters Life!) - How did ancient Roman nobles relax when they returned to their homes at night after a hard day's politicking at the Senate or the Forum? In part by looking at the frescos on the ...

If you can’t make it to Pompeii to gaze upon the incredible ancient Roman frescoes uncovered there, a visit to New York University‘s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is the next best thing ...

The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." After four years of reconstruction, the remains of a painted wall in Roman London, founded in AD 43, have ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...

The Roman villa known for being home to Caravaggio’s only known ceiling painting—which is at the heart of an inheritance battle among one of Italy’s oldest noble families—failed to sell for the third ...

An exceptionally well-preserved marble statue of a Roman dignitary has been discovered by construction workers in Varna, a coastal city on the Black Sea in Bulgaria. The life-sized sculpture, which ...