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A blaze at a Massachusetts assisted-living home Sunday killed a musician, a secretary, a veteran Army sharpshooter and six other people. Some in her family say Gabriel House wasn't luxurious.
The intimate artwork was taken during WWII by a German Nazi army captain assigned to military logistics in Italy.
An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...
Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...
There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...
Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once ...
Let’s not forget that, once upon a time, Catholicism was quite active in those countries. The Church honors “three kings” as ...
Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd's ...
It’s not coincidental that today’s optional memorial follows the Solemnity of Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter and Paul stand at ...
The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It was discovered during the excavation of a fifth-century basilica.
The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled "Myth and Marble," featuring 58 ancient Roman sculptures from the famed Torlonia Collection.
Archaeologists Found the 1,500-Year-Old Head of a Roman Statue Buried in Construction Rubble He’ll need some freshening up.