When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

Elite families in the municipality of Sibalom,  Antique, own eight images of century-old saints, attracting tourists this ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Once looted from tombs, hidden in homes, and trafficked across borders, the precious artefacts that were stolen from Italy’s ...

Bari is the largest city and the capital of the Puglia region in southern Italy. A captivating port city, Bari boasts ...

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a ... laurel leaves – often used for purifying and blessing religious spaces by dispersing the smoke from ceremonial incense ...

The area was discovered in 1998 during the construction of a train line from Naples ... holding their religious objects,” Alapont said in the statement. “It is clear that there were priestesses of ...

(CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during ... leaves – often used for purifying and blessing religious spaces by dispersing the smoke from ceremonial incense ...

It also calls on the Secretary of the Interior to restore public monuments, statues and other markers that have been removed or changed since 2020. But it's unclear how many sites — and which ...