The sculpture was found lying face down in rubble in a theatre and although the head and arms are yet to be recovered, ...
We are all born naked, and sculptures of the human body in its natural state are as old as humankind. In the history of art, nudity does not have just one meaning; it can express everything from ...
A 6.6 ft statue of Greek goddess Athena, carved in white marble, has been unearthed at ancient city of Laodicea.
Most Greek statues feature excessively curly hair due to a mix of factors that made such hair preferable to straight for ...
Ramses II (1303–1213 BCE), aka Ramses the Great, is easily one of ancient Egyptian history’s most recognizable rulers. While ...
Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek ...
Archaeologists uncovered a nearly complete, six-foot-tall statue of Athena at the West Theater in ...
A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an ...
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a nearly two-metre-tall white marble statue of the Greek goddess Athena at the ancient city of Laodicea. Dating to the Augustan period, the piece features ...