Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
On 17 March 2025, Künker held its successful “Spring Auction Sale 419,” where 638 selected lots with ancient coins realized a ...
During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...
Parents often look down at the whorl on the top of their children’s heads and wonder what, exactly, is going on inside. An ...
Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” ...
The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is one of the best historical movies ever made, but Russell Crowe made another great action movie ...
Giordano Luca did this portrait in 1693. The second son of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Leopold I was the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. During his reign, he ...
A collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and British pounds so rare that some have never been sold at public auction have ...