Italy’s Culture Ministry has banned loans of works to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, following a dispute with the U.S. museum over an ancient marble statue believed to have been looted from Italy ...

ROME — Italy’s Culture Ministry has banned loans of works to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, following a dispute with the U.S. museum over an ancient marble statue believed to have been looted from ...

With the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ just weeks away, it might be rewarding to see just what kind of a world he entered. The History Channel on TV would be one place to go, but there's ...

ATLANTA – At the end of August 79, some 1,927 years ago, craftsmen were busy working on stucco reliefs of strapped athletes and scantily draped goddesses meant to decorate the private thermal baths in ...

GETTING THERE: The ancient Roman town of Stabiae is part of the modern city of Castellammare di Stabia, on the via Passeggiata Archeologia, Scavi di Stabia. It's three miles south of Pompeii, eight ...

After 2,000 years, the villas at the foot of Mount Vesuvius remain the sleeping beauties of Western culture. Even now, the expansive resort homes of ancient Roman society boast vaulted ceilings, ...

When Mount Vesuvius violently erupted in 79 A.D., burying thousands of people under its volcanic debris, a cosmopolitan society vanished. Just like that — gone. Pompeii. Herculaneum. Stabiae. Now, ...

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