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 ...

Despite its far-flung location and years of burial, the statue is remarkably well-preserved, save for the broken-off right ...

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

Authorities in New York have obtained an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià, a prominent Italian antiquities dealer accused ...

Museum director Catherine Monnet was visibly moved when Arthur Brand handed back the statue Almost half a century after it was stolen, a Roman statue of the god Bacchus has been handed back to the ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

A lone vandal is believed to be behind damage done to two religious statues outside a historic Roman Catholic church in ...

Ranking immediately below senators, equestrians became an important human resource, whose work underpinned the smooth running of the Roman Empire. As its name suggests, the equestrian class was ...

A Roman statue dating back to the First Century BC has been recovered, almost a decade after it was stolen from an archaeological site in Italy. Two Italian officers came across the sculpture of a ...

Your support makes all the difference. Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was uncovered during construction in the ...

The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...

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