Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. But ancient Romans, with their vast empire, gave Europe its first taste of a common culture and left an enduring legacy of great art.

An ancient Roman mosaic depicting the mythical figure Medusa is back in Italy thanks to a tip to the FBI Art Crime Team. The 2,000-year-old artwork arrived in Rome from Los Angeles in April, as ...

An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic that had been missing for over 70 years. In 2013, Italian architect ...

A California man was sentenced to prison for illegally importing a 2,000-pound Syrian mosaic of the Roman demigod Hercules, a historic work of art dating back to the Roman Empire, federal ...

California man illegally smuggled ancient Roman mosaic art showing Hercules from Syria and into US, feds say. He’s sentenced to prison.

The tiny tiles create a massive piece of art, stretching over 65 feet long and reaching almost 20 feet wide, experts said. Scenes from Greek and Roman mythology decorate the fourth-century mosaic.

The floor mosaic is part of a 50-dwelling Roman villa built in the second century on a cliff in Kent that is in danger of falling into the sea.