Throughout Lent this year, the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., is hosting an exhibit on the Shroud of ...

The story of Ancient Roman Emperor Hardrian and his lover Antinous has long been the stuff of literal legend, captivating the ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Working in wood, he captured the zeal of New England sports with his exacting, lifelike renderings of Hall of Famers like Ted ...

One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

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

The Greek War of Independence erupted into the the early nineteenth century as Europe was being shaken to its roots by riots ...

From ancient myths to modern controversies, iconoclasm has shaped societies throughout history. The defacement of Theodoros ...