As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

Today, murals are widely regarded as powerful tools for storytelling, employee engagement, client attraction, and spatial identity, making spaces more welcoming and visually engaging ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a portraitist of Napoleon—with an exhibition marking the bicentennial of his ...

Swap Rome for one of these five alternative breathtaking Italian cities - While the Eternal City is one of the country’s ...

Silenus riding a wineskin, fountain figure, Replica of 1st century BC statue from the Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum © The ...

The Lancers are off to their best start since the 2006-07 team won 18 of its first 19 games. "A pretty big night around here," Festus boys coach Dan Johnson said. "More than anything, you love the ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was the gravest natural disaster to strike Italy during the peak of the Roman Empire, killing more than a thousand people in nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown that ...

Even before I became a mom, I fantasized about the day I would get to start drawing or painting with a son or daughter of my own. My parents are artists, and many of my earliest memories include ...

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer alive and nurture the next generation of creators. By Patricia Leigh Brown ...

When most people envision the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79 that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they think of the casts of their bodies made by pouring plaster ...