Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

The Museum of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art makes lost art visible to everyone. Aphrodite, Zeus, Julius Caesar, the Parthenon model or portrait busts: The abundance of sculptures and reliefs is ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar ... Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime, and which she likely approved ...

The ancient castle and bristling swoosh of ... Pliny writes that Gaius Matius, a friend of Julius and Augustus Caesar, invented the art of clipping hedges for ornamental rather than strictly ...

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

Other users have been creating various historical moments such as Julius Caesar and Brutus before the latter stabbed the former, Newton discovering gravity, Spartans about to go into battle and more.

Uncovered in the 1920s in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic, the figure, which dates back 26,000 years, is thought to be the oldest known personal portrait. During the late Paleolithic ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

Pointing to other examples of ambiguity in the YUAG’s collection, Brody highlighted a likely portrait of the disgraced Emperor Nero, which was recarved after his death but still within the Roman ...