For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once painted ... Furthermore, the poet Callimachus refers to fragrances in an account of ...

The Satires, as they became known, attacked cruelty, foolishness and the corruption of Roman society. The most famous of these ... “indignation creates my poetry.” He took aim at women ...

While the Bardo Museum as a whole is impressive, one of the its main attractions is the staggering number of ancient ... in Roman Africa. Depicting everything from mythological events to famous ...

From Rome’s holiest texts ... she composed 10,000 lines of poetry, filling nine volumes. Fewer than 70 complete lines exist. But those have made Lesbos’ most famous daughter (as classicist ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire ... Meet Caligula who ruled from AD37 to 41 and was famous for being crazy and cruel. Rumoured to have made his horse ...

The ancient Roman poet Juvenal called it panem et circenses, or “bread and circuses” – a strategy of appeasing the public with necessities and entertainment to distract them from the real ...