The mosaic depicts a battle: Surrounded by a mess of fighting ... Mosaics were a flourishing art form in the Roman Empire, where artisans pioneered the incorporation of tesserae (cubes of stone ...

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A famous Roman mosaic depicting Alexander the Great is revealing new insights into antiquity. As part of an ongoing restoration, researchers have learned that the artwork’s stones came from quarries ...

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This tapestry was first recorded in 1476 as part of the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral, but it was likely commissioned in ...

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Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

Here, in the Battle of Issus ... of the historical event or just in keeping with the Roman style of adapting Greek art as part of elite decor. It is now housed in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico ...

The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes designs ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

WITH gleaming Porsches and Aston Martins lining its immaculate streets, the North London enclave of Highgate village is one ...

A fresh-faced singer in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant in ...