The tremendously rare find depicts a sardonic scene between Hercules and Dionysus. In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus ...
An open-air museum was built on the site of an ancient Roman estate in Stein, Germany. Screengrab from Römisches Freilichtmuseum's Facebook post During the first century, the area of modern-day ...
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Caillan Davenport has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Meaghan McEvoy has received funding from the British Academy, Dumbarton Oaks and ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus depicting Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking contest. The rare artefact, dated to the second or third century AD, was ...