The bronzes, which were found in a perfect state of conservation alongside 5,000 gold, silver and bronze coins, include entire figures of deities, individual body parts and organs.

(By Denis Greenan). (ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, April 2 - Italy's world-famous ancient Greek warrior statues, the Riace Bronzes, are still out in the cold more than two years after being moved out ...

More than fifty years ago, in August 1972, the so-called Riace Bronzes were recovered from the Ionian Sea off Riace Marina, near Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. They are two bronze statues ...

The discovery comes 50 years after the Riace bronze warriors were found by a recreational diver in the waters off southern Calabria and went on to become one of Italy’s most spectacular ...

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, February 27 - The Riace Bronzes will be the stars of a special one-night opening of Reggio Calabria's archaeological museum for Carnival on Saturday. The world-famous ...

It was compared to the finding, about 50 years ago, of the Riace bronzes, two statues of warriors, presumably sculpted in Greece in the mid-5th century BCE, found in the waters of the Ionian Sea ...

The discovery comes 50 years after the Riace bronze warriors were found by a recreational diver in the waters off southern Calabria and went onto become one of Italy’s most spectacular ...

More than two dozen immaculately preserved bronze statues of Greco-Roman deities, which date back to around the first 1st century AD, have been discovered nestled between the ruins of an ancient ...

Discovery of Bronzes Rewrites Italy’s Etruscan-Roman History. The extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring is the most important since the 1972 ...