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.

The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century BCE. Reading time 2 minutes A familiar face has resurfaced from the ruins of ...

Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five new theatrical mask reliefs from the ancient city of Castabala — once called Hieropolis during its Hellenistic period, or “sacred city.” The find ...

Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old. By Franz Lidz When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ...