an art historian spotting a missing painting on his social media feed, and an amateur excavator digging up a confounding ancient Roman object. The experts made plenty of headlines, too ...

According to French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research art historian ... common to many Roman wall paintings. Only the most prominent families of the ancient city could ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Encaustic painting is an ancient technique of mixing hot ... we name Greek, Roman, and Byzantine examples of art, painting with molten wax was familiar and popular in non-European cultures as ...

As to why the sculpture is known as Athena rather than Minerva—the ancient Roman equivalent of the Olympian—Manchester tells The Art Newspaper that it was, in fact, originally called Minerva.

Archaeologists have struck actual gold in the village of Holztem in Parc Hosingen, Luxembourg—unearthing a trove of 141 ancient Roman coins worth more than €300,000 ($310,000). The four-year ...