Archaeologists Discovered a 1,700-Year-Old Statue of Hercules—Without His Head
Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ...
After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue
While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...
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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...
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Ancient Sculptures Didn’t Just Look Good—They Also Smelled Heavenly, Study Finds
Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.
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Archaeologists Uncover Missing Piece of Ancient Statue, Solving Century-Old Mystery
The statue, intricately carved in the Bayon art style, was found just 50 meters from where its head was unearthed in 1927 ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Clay Puppets With Open Mouths and Detachable Heads That ‘Resemble Modern Toy Dolls’
The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by ...
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Rare ceramic dragon head — at least 1,400 years old — found at temple in China. See it
At an ancient Tang Dynasty site in Hebei Province, south of Beijing, archaeologists discovered a rare ceramic sculpture. Siyi ...
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Denmark returns smuggled head of Septimius Severus statue to Türkiye
The head of a statue of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and 48 terracotta architectural plaques smuggled from Türkiye have ...
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An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly ... the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, taken from the Acropolis ...