An ancient carved stone head, possibly of a Roman god or philosopher, was uncovered beneath a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy.

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 ...

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

The oldest synagogue in antiquity was on the Greek island of Delos - the island of god Apollo in the Cyclades - and attests the presence of a Jewish community ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

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

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered. The images were painted on the walls of a large ...

The great Roman statesman Cicero, for example, wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the huntress goddess Artemis with “precious unguents,” as well as “frankincense ...

The leading Greek filmmaker and director, Yorgos Lanthimos, has been denied permission to shoot some scenes for his ...