Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the ...

Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically ... persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body ...

Torlonia Foundation/Photo by Lorenzo De Masi Share Any temporary exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago would be notable, because 44 years have passed since the ...

London is a city of layers, where shining skyscrapers are built atop some of the city’s oldest ancient sites. Recent excavations, such as a Roman basilica ... according to the Art Newspaper ...