What it tells us about the past: This marble statuette depicts a dwarf-dancer, which was a common motif in ancient Mediterranean art. But while examples from Greece were usually exaggerated or ...

Dionysus and his erect penis depicted on 2,500-year-old bone stylus found in Sicily Pectoral with coins: 'One of the most intricate pieces of gold jewelry to survive from the mid-sixth century' 12,000 ...

When it was made: Sometime between 332 and 150 B.C., during the Ptolemaic period Related: 2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written ...