What's more, Roman sculptors would sometimes deliberately design their statues with removable heads that "popped out" at the ...

The artifact, found off the coast of Italy, is believed to depict a larger-than-life male torso, archaeologists said.

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

Experts believe the figure represents a Greek warrior, perhaps from The Iliad: maybe the Spartan king Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus, or maybe Ajax doing the same with Achilles.Some even ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition of the lost city of Perga, which was held as the ancient empire’s sculpture capital.

Roman statues frequently appear headless due to their necks' fragility, deliberate actions such as damnatio memoriae to erase ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023, as ...

2,000-year-old statues discovered that archaeologists say could "rewrite history" 01:00 Italian archaeologists have uncovered several 2,000-year-old bronze statues from pre-Roman times in a Tuscan ...

An exhibition that opened Friday at Rome’s Quirinal Palace could be described as a classic rags-to-riches story. Just ten months ago, many of the bronze statues now on show there — artfully ...

So why are so many Roman statues headless? Answering that question requires some "archaeological CSI" work, said Rachel Kousser, a classics and art history professor at Brooklyn College and the ...

There are many reasons an ancient statue might accidentally lose its head — and some for its head to be severed on purpose.