The Arch of Titus is one of the most magnificent ancient monuments surviving in Rome and offers a fascinating insight into ...

Hadrian’s Wall — the inspiration for Game of Thrones’ Wall — was built by the Romans in the second century A.D. in what is ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens ... it was nothing less than a symbol of Rome itself. To Romans, the baths proved that they were cleaner – and therefore ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... fascism appropriated the idea of white figures of antiquity as a symbol of white superiority.