The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome, saying: Maiden faces have these birds, foulest filth ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

THE subject of the rise and decline of nations and of the causes to which they are due is of perennial interest. One of the problems which historians have striven to solve is the great change in ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

But this has not always been the case. In ancient Greece and Rome, you might assume that the close relations between humans and animals would result in many tales of animal ghosts, but this is not ...

The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between Rome and Athens. Load Map What is the travel distance between Athens, Greece and Rome, Italy? How many miles is it from Rome ...