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

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you ...

The largest statues in the world rise from the ground or pedestals like mythical giants. They are truly remarkable feats, combining artistic ability with unthinkable engineering marvels that capture ...

Why do men stare at women? Each time a woman walks past, most men just can’t stop staring at her. A few men may be discreet, while a few perverts may go “strip mode”, but either way, men who stare at ...

Toronto Sculpture Garden exhibitions change twice per year, typically in the spring and fall. Since opening in 1981, the Toronto Sculpture Garden (TSG) commissioned temporary artworks by over 80 ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis in Sicily, while the poet Callimachus’ description of the statue of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. The study ...

The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can’t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, following you through space and time.

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...

raised a small fleet during the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s and won Greece’s first naval battle aboard her flagship, Agamemnon. Her bronze statue stands near the harbour, and now her ...