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the head of a statue—pulled from the dusty ruins of an ancient amphitheater after 2,100 years. As an archeological team helped with the restoration of the amphitheater in Laodicea, a project ...
Located near the Tombe di Via Latina, the carved stone was likely treated as construction material at the time of the ...
Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting ... “Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young married ...
(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ... for the return of the ...
The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...
Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think ...
The experts wrote that finding out more about the statue head could give scholars insight ... Amateurs Found a Hoard of Ancient Silver Treasure ...
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — 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 ...