Much like the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican or the Basilica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, visitors tend to lose their ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

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The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

As the museum grew in the 1930s, its director, Francis Henry Taylor, supported excavations in ancient Antioch, now modern Turkey. It was through this support that the mosaic made its way from the ...