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 ...

Today, Aire Ancient Baths Chicago is the only ancient Roman-style bathhouse in the Windy City. In fact, a visit to Aire Ancient Baths will make you feel as if you have been transported to another ...

E-mail comments or questions to the editors at [email protected]. Students visit the Empire Room in the Palmer House as part of the Ancient Rome in Chicago field study. Francesca Tataranni, one ...

The term “Fertile Crescent” was coined and popularized by James Henry Breasted, an Egyptologist at the University of Chicago. In Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, originally intended as a ...

"Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda" had been on display at the museum since 1997. Researchers discovered the ...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, finalized after nine decades, was the key to unlocking ancient legal codes, literature and economic transactions. Other UChicago dictionary projects are examining the ...

Aire Ancient Baths is a singular spa experience in Chicago. The awe-inspiring space, which is built inside an old factory in River West, is like a hidden bunker designed for peaceful retreats.

Nearly 60 works from the Torlonia Collection, including striking depictions of animals and people, will feature in ...

Jawed vertebrates known as gnathostomes appear to be the first creatures with the synovial joints, according to Shubin. These joint cavities can be seen in cartilaginous fish such as skates or sharks.