Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

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.

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... while the white skin of figures of young women "proclaimed grace and glow of youth," according to the museum's ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than ... of beeswax spread on ...

The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within a niche on the boundary wall of a monumental ancient tomb. “The delicacy and detail of the sculpture ... most women in ancient Roman society ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...

Brøns's findings propose a new way of understanding classical art, challenging the traditional perception of sculpture as ... previously thought. In ancient Greece and Rome, people honored ...

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...