New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

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Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

The New York- and Geneva-based gallery says it will appeal the ruling in the case brought by Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah ...

New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emily Hauser ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

Orient Express has opened its first hotel, Orient Express La Minerva, inside a refurbished iconic 17th century palazzo, in ...

Gran Vía is Madrid’s Broadway, lined with shops and carved through the old city to make way for modernization in the early ...

However, these statues ... Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces, and has led the researchers to believe the figure was in fact a priestess—of Ceres, perhaps, since this ...