A Roman mosaic in Alter do Chão, Portugal, depicts Alexander the Great's clash with King Porus—one of only three such mosaics ...

The god Ocean was always represented as an old ... about the expansion of Hellenic artistic influence in Europe, the Roman mosaic in Alter do Chão is an example of this with an Indian connection ...

Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice, which got its first Dallas Opera performance Friday night at the ...

Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

Rare ‘Roman Figure’ Carved on Single Wood Recovered From a Water Ditch, Archaeologists Stunned By Its Preservation ...

Reasonable people — yes, including Catholics — see the need for law and desire a well-ordered society, but these laws must be ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

During the Roman Empire, bathhouses were more than a clean place to rinse off the grime from the grind; they were central to ...

Idolised by Celtic fans for his moments of brilliance and acts of charity, there are calls for him to be canonised by the ...

This privilege of Mary derives from God's having chosen her as Mother of ... The various ethnic representations of the Blessed Mother given in mosaic, sculpture and other artistic renderings ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend ... condemned to death, was scourged by Roman soldiers and crowned with thorns. “Tradition” is a word you hear a lot in ...

AUNDECK OMNI KANING—High school sweethearts Frankie and Betty Corbiere love to travel and have taken some amazing voyages in their more than 40 years of marriage—but this past Christmas season the ...