Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Credit: Alfio Giannotti The man is wearing a toga indicating that he is a Roman citizen ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered.

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...

The toga was a status symbol to be worn by Roman citizens ... The line first appears in Shakespeare, while Roman historian Suetonius has him uttering the Greek phrase "kai su teknon" ("you too young ...

The culture is celebrated for its art, architecture, religion and style—with many crediting Etruscans with the invention of the toga. Eventually the culture was absorbed into the Roman Republic.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...