Roman statue makers often created archetypal body types and separate, highly individualized heads. As an emperor’s power ... The catalog reported that at one point “there is a match of the ...

But when it comes to ancient Roman statues ... the first and most mundane reason so many statues get beheaded is that the neck is a natural weak point on the human body. When a statue falls ...

By the time Turkish authorities arrived on the scene in 1967, all that remained were empty pedestals and a single statue, now in a nearby museum. The pedestals bear the names of 14 Roman emperors ...

The headless statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was looted from ... scholar Elizabeth Marlowe told Hyperallergic in an email, pointing out that the looters had immediately garnered the ...

A headless bronze statue, believed to depict Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, has belonged to the Cleveland Museum of Art for nearly 40 years. But soon, the artifact will be in New York where ...

A newly found statue in Rome appears to depict a slain Roman emperor dressed as Hercules. It may offer insight to the viewpoint of a Roman emperor who embraced traditional Greco-Roman gods at a ...