Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

A historic Roman-era mosaic was unearthed this week during well-digging inside a private home in the historic town of ...

When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed ...

Joan Smith describes how the powerful women of ancient Rome’s first imperial dynasty were smeared as adulterers, poisoners ...

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If you walked down a city street in ancient Greek and Roman times, it’s likely you’d come across children or even adults ...

A group of antiquities smugglers in Turkey were just caught after trying to illegally excavate an ancient Roman mosaic — ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

Groups of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics processed down the national shrine's main aisle, led by pilgrims carrying arches of colorful crepe-paper flowers.

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheatres in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire ... of these contests in ancient mosaics and texts, actual forensic evidence has ...