Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Every year, archeologists stumble across remains that shed light on the culture, politics, and daily life of Pompeii.

Archeologists have long struggled to figure out what Roman dodecahedrons are or what purpose they were originally used for.

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their contemporary setting.

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

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Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

Professor Lauren Hackworth Petersen received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in ancient Roman art and architecture. She has also done extensive research in Greek and ...

Researchers have identified bite marks, most likely from a lion, on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for ancient Roman gladiators in England. This may not seem ...