During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

When a museum displays a piece of art, they generally try to show the whole thing. It's rare to see a painting with half the canvas missing, or a tapestry with one side unraveled. But when it comes to ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie Brøns, who ...

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 City ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in their masterpieces. According to new research, this also included the sense ...

A Libyan archaeologist has discovered a small statue, believed to date back to the Roman era, inside an ancient water channel ...

The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been ...