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

A sarcophagus decorated with garlands, believed to be 2,000 years old, has been unearthed at the ancient city of Stratonikeia ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...

Meet the golden goddess on the Alabama Power Company Headquarters building in Downtown BHAM — the Divinity of Light herself, ...

a finely sculpted marble armchair known as the Throne of Moses was found, sitting against a stone wall. Several Greek inscriptions have been discovered around the ruins of the synagogue. One ...

Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals ... Opening a marble sarcophagus with trembling hands, Andronikos found a small golden coffin, or larnax, with a relief star on ...

Among the most-prized missing objects: the Warka Vase, a sacred limestone piece from Uruk; a marble head of Poseidon ... They worshiped a pantheon of gods including one whose name they took ...