The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

An ancient Greco-Roman statue that’s been one of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s most-prized pieces for decades will soon return to its home country of Türkiye — but it will go on ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

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 nearly ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...