Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine ...

The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within a niche on the boundary wall of a monumental ancient tomb ... As well as the newly announced statues, in 2021, the team unearthed the tomb ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue that the New York District Attorney’s Office said was looted from a site in Turkey will be put on public display one final time at the ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient ... city of Sparta, just a 10-minute drive from Euphoria; there I stared at excavated funeral urns, statues ...