As crews in Rome were excavating the archaeological area of the Tombe di Via Latina during work at the Basilica of Santo Stefano, they found the head of a Roman-era stone statue amidst the ...

Though it's often not possible to know for certain how a statue lost its head ... memoriae," the Roman Senate could vote to ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, though not altogether headless. Despite no cranium on the Greek hero, the ...

This head was once part of a complete statue that stood on Rome's most ... and into the temple would literally be crushing the Roman Emperor under their feet. And if you look closely again at ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

An ancient Greco-Roman statue that's been one of the Cleveland Museum of Art's most-prized pieces for decades will soon ...

The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was Pontifex Maximus. But at some point, the emperors in the Roman Empire also ...

The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.