From its perch atop Sheffield Town Hall, a seven-foot-high bronze sculpture of Vulcan has watched over the city for 128 years ...

as will astonish the West Riding of Yorkshire.” Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena ...

YORK'S most famous duck is celebrated in a light show at York Minster. Long Boi - a long time 'resident' at the University of York campus - features in the Colour & Light show currently running at the ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

The repatriation comes after years of legal disputes over the true identity and provenance of the 6-foot-4 artwork, which has been housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art ...

a period during which the city of Perge flourished under the rule of the Roman Empire. Alongside Aphrodite, archaeologists have unearthed another female statue measuring 1.87 meters in height, dressed ...

In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis. Thessaloniki weeks ago unveiled a ...

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An appeal has been launched to locate a life-sized cow statue that was stolen from a North Yorkshire field last month. The large "heavy" cow statue was stolen between January 14 and 28 in Kirby ...