The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...
Construction workers came across an "exceptionally preserved" marble statue during a job in the city of Varna in Bulgaria. The Varna Regional Museum of History announced the find in a Facebook post on ...
Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an ...
New excavations at the ancient thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany, Italy have yielded a life-sized, well-preserved statue of the mythical figure Apollo Sauroktonos—the latest discovery ...
For centuries, statues were everywhere in the Roman world. Emperors, generals, gods, philosophers, and heroes filled the ...
Among the most significant items unveiled at the ceremony were a marble head of Alexander the Great dating to the first ...
The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.
Ancient Roman-era statues have been stolen from the national museum in the Syrian capital, Damascus, leading to the facility’s temporary closure, officials confirmed on Tuesday. News of the audacious ...
A Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has been discovered by construction workers building a parking lot in the United Kingdom. Digger driver Greg Crawley uncovered the marble head of a Roman ...