The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods, goddesses, and rulers. “A ...

Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man ... suggested that ...

The city of Perga was renowned throughout the Roman Empire for its skilled ... None were more striking than a 6.5-foot-tall statue of Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of love and beauty) sitting ...

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

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state ...

While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful ... “For example, a cult statue of a god or goddess with such decoration placed in a temple, would have given the visitor ...

The original statue would have been about half life-size and was probably intended to be of Fortuna, the goddess of good fortune, who was often worshipped by soldiers in the Roman army.

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...