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 ...

Eight monumental sculptures by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who died in September at the age of 91, can currently be ...

The beloved ancient Greek sculpture called "The Boxer at Rest," from 330-50 BC, is one of the most realistic of all ancient ...

While his imposing bronze sculptures have been shown in parks and avenues of many European and Latin American capitals, this ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...