New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

This is not how people admired these works of art when they were made. Ancient statues were not only painted in bright colors but also draped in fabrics, adorned with jewels, and surrounded by ...

After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey, with newly added context about its provenance.

In addition to smelling wonderful, Greco-Roman statues were also brightly colored ... terracotta or stone, were painted.” “In some cases they were also scented, which would have made the ...

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich The painted replica of a c ... excavation of ancient Greek and Roman sites was bringing forth great numbers of statues, and there were scholars on hand to document ...

Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church sheds new light on the Late Antique period from the fourth to six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ...