Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

Join Dr. Ioannis Syrigos from Ancient Origins as he interviews Eckart Frahm, Yale professor and leading expert on Assyria and Mesopotamian history. Together, they’ll uncover the mysteries of the ...

Two meetings with Robert Weis await Roman readers. The writer will present the new book 'Return to Kyoto' on Saturday, ...

What is Ancient History?Walter Scheidel, Princeton UP, £25IT is not often that you read an academic text that is effectively ...

As for why "For Those About to Rock" features the sound of cannons, those trademark booms were inspired by yet another ...

The Miles Franklin winner’s fifth novel, about an unhappy teen at boarding school, is imbued with a love of ancient myths.

By seeking to assert control over civic architecture, Trump is creating a physical testament to his destruction of democracy, ...

The teaching of the “classics” – primarily the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome – may be fading from universities, but interest remains high among publishers and readers. This is largely ...

The origins of many holiday traditions are shrouded in mystery, a hodgepodge of beliefs steeped in myths, folklore, legends, ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...