A Roman statue was unearthed during construction on ... bucket rolled over what I thought was a big stone to reveal a face. When I picked it up, I realized it was a head of a statue," Crawley ...

Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ... for example, coming face-to-face with Marcus Aurelius, who was popularized by the Gladiator film franchise.

So why are so many Roman statues headless? Answering that question ... this design allowed them to use different materials ...

Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents ...

A Roman sculpture which was found on a development site had its head and right hand chopped off in a “ritual”, a new study ...