The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the head of an ancient deity during excavations at the Basilica of St. Stephen on Caelian Hill ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

In some instances, the scents were also applied in ways that helped preserve the statues. While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful of references to sweet-smelling statues.

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Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church ... six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved ... discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates ...

A statue that tests conclude was likely present at Sebasteion in the ancient city of Bubon, Turkey will depart the Cleveland Museum of Art collection and return to its home country after an exhibition ...

After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey, with newly added context about its provenance.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times.