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

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.

Those are complicated questions. But is it alive? Absolutely. Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection through June 29 at the Art Institute of Chicago. artic.edu ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

At the centre is the Piazzetta Ripetta, a calm courtyard where you forget the often chaotic city on the other side of the ...

Yves-Bernard Debie, a noted private collector of Roman and Egyptian antiquities and a partner in the Brussels-based law-firm ...

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

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