Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...

Wonderful statues around the world are far more than those little snowmen and mermaids you made in your childhood. These ...

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

The Statue of Liberty — famously an inanimate object — is being *checks notes* transvestigated. We wish we were kidding, but ...

“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...

But when it comes to ancient Roman statues, being a little broken is almost the norm. Walk around any museum of classical art ...

Now, the looming Roman sculpture is finally back on display Julia ... SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of ...

Two Roman sculptures have been unearthed at an archaeological dig The heads were found during the latest excavation at Carlisle Cricket Club The site's lead archaeologist said they were "priceless ...

From Venus to Yahweh to Ganesha, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston surveys depictions of divinity through the ages.