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 ...

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

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

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

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

which bears the date of the Declaration of Independence in Roman numerals: July IV, MDCCLXXVI (4 July 1776). Over time, the copper oxidised to give the statue the green appearance it is best known ...

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

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 ...

Rome CNN — When the city of Rome constructed what looks like a backyard swimming pool in front of the famous Trevi Fountain ...

The city of Rome's decision to place a small pool for tourists to throw coins into at Trevi Fountain has been widely mocked.