Libya recovered an ancient statue from the Ptolemaic era that had been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, after being smuggled out of the country during World War II. An official ...

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 ...

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 ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue of the god Hermes. “Figures that remained buried for ...

Members of the Egyptian House of Representatives submitted a request to the Speaker of the House, Hanfy Gebaly, demanding a briefing on the reported destruction of a ancient statue in the Saqqara ...

The latest find is an ancient marble statue discovered in, of all places, a black trash bag. After an initial evaluation, experts dated the statue to the Hellenistic era between 320 and 30 B.C.E ...

The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for forensic testing. Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023 ...

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created ...