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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

From giant rock-cut pieces to the finest monolithic sculptures, these statues subtly manifest the best of each era. Whether ...

“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 ...

Don't overlook this legendary Roman museum dating back to the 15th century, where you can explore a treasure trove of the ...

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 ...

A Roman-era garden that belonged to one of Rome's most infamous emperors was discovered by a construction team.