Mississippi Museum of Art’s 14th biennial survey of recent works by contemporary visual artists living and working in the ...

One does not have to be a fan of Shakespeare (or iambic pentameter) to know the tragic tale of JULIUS CAESAR – how this would-be-Emperor was felled by members of the Roman Senate, Caesar’s failure to ...

The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi ...

For centuries, depictions of Cleopatra have emphasised her beauty and romantic entanglements – much more so than her ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Signs of the times must ­never be taken lightly. Generally speaking, the idiom refers to the second coming, the end time. It ...

Bristol city council in the south west of England has launched a one-week public fundraising campaign in the hopes of ...

From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

It has launched a one-week public fundraising campaign, called Bring Turner Home, to raise £100,000 towards the purchase of ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.