This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

More than a century after its initial discovery, the only known amphitheater on the Ionian Islands is finally seeing the light of day. Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of ...