Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today ... differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than the color of their skin, ancient sources ...

Around 1,600 years ago, a series of earthquakes destroyed an ancient city called Heraclea Sintica. From this settlement, archaeologists uncovered a rare marble statue from the Roman period that ...

An ancient statue of Hercules dating back nearly 2,000 years has been discovered in Greece. The sculpture was found as part of a building and is "larger than life," according to Greece's Ministry ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

The museum acquired the ancient statue—which depicts a male figure with a box, possibly intended to hold offerings, atop its head—in 1955. It did not share any information about how the ...

The museum said its enhanced effort to study the provenance of items in its collection had turned up evidence that the statue of a Sumerian ... in its collection. The ancient artifact had been ...