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

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

"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. But the 58 ancient works ... tells us that all cultures are ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

How The Ancient Statues Of Greece And Rome Were Performed As Brøns reported in her study, many of the statues that were anointed with perfumes were statues of Roman and Greek gods. In Sicily ...

Greco-Roman ... to indulge all of the senses in their masterpieces. According to new research, this also included the sense of smell, which was aroused by smothering ancient statues in rose ...

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 ...