Digging into the light brown dirt, archaeologists in the United Kingdom found themselves face-to-face with two ancient Roman sculpture heads. The massive stone carvings reveal more about Roman life ...
The Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., is one of two U.S. institutions to host the Torlonia Foundation’s exhibition “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” The ...
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...
Two huge Roman head sculptures have been found at a sports club, in what archaeologists have described as "finds of a lifetime." Volunteers uncovered the carved sandstone artifacts, thought to be ...
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...
Ancient Egyptian and Roman sculptures have been discovered in Kluczkowice, a small village in eastern Poland. Experts spent a year confirming their authenticity and determining how they got there.
On view at Villa Albani Torlonia is "Eros in a chariot pulled by wild boar," a kind of super-pastiche in which only the hindquarters of one boar are ancient, along with the relief on the chariot and ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, ...
In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a researcher at ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The 2023 fall season at the Cleveland Museum of Art is not going exactly as planned. Ohio’s biggest art museum has been gearing up for the opening on Sunday, Sept. 10, of a major ...
Archaeologists unearthed pair of “monumental” heads at Hadrian’s Wall ruins in Carlisle and called it “find of a lifetime,” photos show. Screengrab from Cumberland Council's YouTube video Digging into ...