The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

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

As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St.

While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial ...

Valentine's Day has long been celebrated as a day of romance filled with red roses, heart-shaped candies and chocolate boxes.

Ancient Romans had a seemingly predictable diet for pre-refrigeration days made up of mostly cereals, legumes and meats with ...

The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...

Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists exploring the site of a ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

French calligrapher Claude Mediavilla in her monumental work, From Calligraphy to Abstract Painting, describes it as “the art of giving ... follower Xuanzang (7th century) had a number of ...