When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

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

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

T he myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity. They were painted with a palette that displayed a ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...