A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine ...

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Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

The idol, identified as depicting Lord Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar ... comes shortly after the department shifted another ancient sculpture—a Surya idol made of khondalite stone—from ...

The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Restoration and reassembly work on one of the largest Khmer bronze statues ever discovered — of Lord Vishnu or Lord Narayana — has been completed, reported The Phnom Penh Post. A total of 39 ...

Languages: English, Spanish A rare marble statue from the Roman period has been unearthed in an ancient city that was devastated by earthquakes around 1,600 years ago. The "exceptionally preserved ...

By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an unexpected discovery in an ancient Roman sewer last week: A well-preserved marble statue, taller than a man.