In 1900, a team of sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera surfaced with more than they bargained for. Among the ...

The beginning of the Classical style in Greek sculpture is the beginning of naturalism in art, an important turning point in ...

A little over two weeks of diving in September turned up a bronze statue arm, other statue fragments, pottery and ship fragments that have sat at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea for two millennia, ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Most of the extant bronze statues from the ancient world exist today because at some point they were lost and forgotten, at sea in shipwrecks, in collapsed buildings or fires, or in the deluge of the ...

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right? Nope ...

Two statues of Greek muses will be unveiled at a special ceremony at 4 p.m. Dec. 15 in the lobby of the Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6500 Airline Drive, Metairie. Jefferson Beautification Inc. is ...

Dozens of beautifully preserved, 2,000-year-old bronze statues were found in what Italian authorities are calling an "exceptional" discovery from a sacred thermal spring that will “rewrite history.” ...

Bronze Statues, Coins and Ancient Eggs Found in Tuscan Thermal Baths By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) - Ancient statues, coins, jewels and still-intact eggs from Roman and Etruscan times have been ...

A trove of bronze statues that archeologists say could rewrite the history of Italy's transition to the Roman Empire have been discovered in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. Italy's Ministry of ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...