One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family. It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and ...

A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

Both are possible. Despite being hailed as the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in the world, the Torlonia Collection has been locked away for almost 70 years, shrouded in myth and ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold and pulverize and filter quartz.

A North American tour of Roman sculptures from the Torlonia Collection—considered to be the finest group of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands—begins on 15 March at the Art ...

Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned for its 2,000-year-old Roman-era ruins. It is now marked by shattered ... and beheaded an elderly antiquities scholar who had dedicated his life to ...

(The sculpture was previously believed to depict the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and date from the final decades of the 2nd century.) In 2023, the Antiquities Tracking Unit of the Manhattan ...