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October 1, 2017
In one of the most famous clashes of the ancient world, Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BCE.

February 17, 2017
The Art Newspaper reports that Jannis (or Gianni) Kounellis, a Greek artist who moved to Rome at the age of 20, died yesterday (16 February 2016) at the age of eighty.

October 23, 2016
By the fall of 42 BCE, a little more than two years after they had assassinated Julius Caesar, the Roman senators Brutus and Cassius had managed to raise more than 80,000 troops still loyal to the idea of the Republic.

February 12, 2016
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June 12, 2014
The so-called Athlete of Fano, a Greek bronze found off the coast of Italy by fishermen in 1964, remains the subject of controversy between the Italian government and the Getty museum, which acquired the statue in 1977.

March 9, 2014
The so-called Athlete of Fano, a Greek bronze found off the coast of Italy by fisherman in 1964, is the subject of controversy between the Italian government and the Getty museum, which acquired the statue in 1977.

August 30, 2013
Silvia Mazza reports in the Art Newspaper that the Riace Bronze Warriors are to go back on display in January 2014 after a six-year hiatus.

August 26, 2013
Patricia Cohen reports in the New York Times , and Helen Stoilas, in The Art Newspaper , that the formerly cancelled exhibition of Sicilian antiquities will proceed at the Cleveland Museum of Art Sunday, September 29, 2013 to Sunday, January 5, 2014.