The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... Guy Devreux, a curator at the Vatican Museums’ stone and marble restoration workshop, tells Reuters ...

“A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived as a statue in stone ... the goddess of the hunt, was ritually ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

"A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived as a statue in stone ... of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest and animals in Greek mythology, in the Sicilian ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman ... worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, ...

have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also ...

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich To find out what the Greek gods looked like ... leaving the stone of most of their statues its natural color. Thus they helped pave the way for neo-Classicism ...

These gods were ... another famous Greek hero, Perseus, killed a monster called Medusa. Medusa was a Gorgon who had venomous snakes instead of hair. She could turn people to stone just by looking ...