There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

A rare Roman cameo relief depicting the goddess Medusa has emerged from the rubble of a construction site in the city of ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of humanity. These reads go beyond dates and dynasties, offering power struggles, ...

A volunteer, digging near the cold stone of Hadrian’s Wall, made a startling discovery: an ancient silver ring featuring a delicately carved intaglio. The find pulls the curtain back on the lives of ...

An image described as a “Fayum portrait”, a naturalistic portrait placed on mummies in Roman Egypt, has been widely shared on social media. It turns out that it is actually a fake AI-generated image ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

What follows is strange. Troilus’s soul leaves his body, rising above the fields of death. From this vantage point he ...

From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami ...

After the Guadalupe event, Native people uninterested in Christ suddenly flocked by the millions to be baptized. Our Lady of Guadalupe bridged an ocean, uniting Europeans and Indigenous Americans. How ...

The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York, is a whimsical example of a 19th-century, eight-sided mansion.

The year’s finest shows ranged from ancient Roman sculpture to exemplary contemporary painters, and focused on such giants as ...