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Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the ...
Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...
After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey, with newly added context about its provenance.
The discovery of an antique bronze statue such as that found on Sunday ... the building operations for the conversion of mediaeval Rome into a modern capital, and the ... View Full Article ...
Archeologists working at the Basilica of Saint Stephen in Rome discovered a statue head within the church’s foundation. Located near the Tombe di Via Latina, the carved stone was likely treated ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins unveiled a bronze statue of Hall of Fame catcher Joe Mauer at Target Field before Sunday's game against the Detroit Tigers. Mauer spoke as the statue was ...
Gemini lives up to its name in a couple of ways. First of all, its brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, are easily seen with the naked eye, side-by-side and nearly equal in brightness. Nowhere else ...
The difference between the apparent size of the moon at perigee, when it's closest to Earth, versus apogee, when it's most distant, is obvious in this side-by-side comparison.
You can use the moon and Mars to help you find the twins of Gemini, the stars Castor and Pollux. Both stars will be shining bright beside Mars and the moon, and each make up the heads of the two ...
On Saturday -- as well as from April 11 to 12 -- the moon and Mars will come together and be joined by twin stars Castor and Pollux, according to EarthSky. In addition, the sun's magnetic field is ...