The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is ...

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

They lived in beautiful houses – often on the hills ... they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the ...

Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church sheds new light on the Late Antique period from the fourth to six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ...