From the Midas touch to a Sisyphean task, from Pandora’s box to Achilles’ heel, characters from classical Greek and Roman mythology have an inescapable presence in everyday life and language.

Teams from Historic England and the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) excavated the site and discovered the first Roman mosaic ... Hector and Achilles engage in battle.

MINERVA – With a solemn facial expression, Minerva, the Roman goddess with dark flowing hair, affectionately embraces an owl. The painted image in a recently created mural now graces a downtown ...

The mural was found in the remains of a Roman house (known as a domus) near the Colosseum. “This discovery is exceptional for a simple reason: There is nothing else like it from this period in ...

A North Yorkshire artist has revealed a glimpse into the Roman past in a giant new mural which reveals what the village of Aldborough would have looked like in the third century A.D. Did you know ...