After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been ...

In 2020, a massive explosion rocked the port of Beirut in Lebanon. It killed more than 200 people and destroyed homes as far as six miles away. It also damaged a historic piece of art: a previously ...

For decades, “Hercules and Omphale” hung in the Sursock Palace, a private and opulent mid-19th century townhouse owned by Beirut’s Sursock family for five generations. The explosion in the ...