The Valdelsa Fiorentina Cultural Association oversaw the excavation in coordination with the SAGAS Department of the University of Florence and summer school participants. The statue, measuring ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, ...

Yr-Old Marble Statue of Hercules Depicting His Heroism Found in Italy with Severed Head Stuns Archaeologists. Multiple Roman ...

Below the building's curved arches are dozens of sculptures (notable ones include Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines and a statue of Perseo holding Medusa's head, by Benvenuto Cellini), which draw ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman ... these types of sculptures are very rare in southern Italy. It is even more unusual to find reliefs of priestesses ...

When you find a Jizo statue, you can honor it by leaving a fruit as an offering. They can be found on the main roads all over the nine regions and, although you will find most of them naturally as ...

It added: “These types of sculptures are very rare in southern Italy. It is even more unusual to find reliefs of priestesses holding their religious objects.” The statue of the woman ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...