Archaeologists discovered rare paintings, showing Helen of Troy and other Greek figures, in the lost Roman city of Pompeii 2000 years after the deadly volcanic eruption. The paintings were revealed on ...

Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii. Discovered inside what ...

Archaeologists discover a bench in Pompeii opposite the Villa of the Mysteries that reveals Roman social and political life.

The Battle of the Allia, fought around 387 BC, was a significant conflict between the Senones, a Gallic tribe led by Brennus, ...

“Slowly, I realized, ‘Oh, my God.’ … The scale of what we can put back together and the amount of decorations, the diversity of motifs, it was incredible,” he told the Washington Post in a phone ...

Archaeologists have unearthed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London and painstakingly pieced the fragments together, they said Thursday. The plaster, which ...

A line-up of busts or paintings of the first twelve Roman emperors is one of the commonest decorations in up-market houses in Europe and the United States. Most are not actually ancient Roman, but ...

In 552 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire launched a final offensive to retake Italy from the Ostrogoths. Led by the general Narses ...

Conservation experts almost gave up when they first saw the severely damaged wall paintings they had come to rescue in the ancient city of Petra. Cloaked for centuries in grimy soot from Bedouin camp ...