Cleveland Museum of Art to display looted ancient statue before return to Turkey
A statue that tests conclude was likely present at Sebasteion in the ancient city of Bubon, Turkey will depart the Cleveland ...
Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn't just have to be wives to make a difference
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...
Study finds many ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were scented
Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...
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Greek and Roman Sculptures Were Perfumed
Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Two Nearly Life-Size Statues Carved Into the Wall of a Tomb in Ancient Pompeii
The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Greek Reporter6d
The Ancient Roman Emperors Who Loved Greece
Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
Breakthrough in mystery of life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii tomb
ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...
Immaculately Preserved Funerary Statues Found in Pompeii
Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...
Life-sized statue of Roman priestess discovered in Pompeii
A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...
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Last chance to see statue at Cleveland Museum of Art before it’s repatriated to Türkiye
An ancient Greco-Roman statue that’s been one of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s most-prized pieces for decades will soon return to its home country of Türkiye — but it will go on ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
Archaeologists Uncover Two Nearly Life-Size Statues Carved Into the Wall of a Tomb in Ancient Pompeii
As researchers write in the park’s digital magazine, the sculptures were likely carved during Rome ... statue also offers valuable insight into the religious practices of Pompeii’s ancient ...