Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the remains of a 'magnificent' ancient building adorned with marble lion sculptures ...

For the first time, the ancient marbles are traveling out of Europe to the United States and Canada, for a prolonged stint.

Among the gold artifacts is an earring in the form of a naked, winged Eros figure holding a scepter and wreath.

The unidentified man in this over-life-size headless portrait statue is dressed in full military regalia ... He wears a type of heavy cloak, typically worn by Roman military commanders, draped over ...

Nonetheless, many ancient Greeks, particularly the wealthy and those involved in athletic or military pursuits, often had well-developed bodies that resembled the idealized forms depicted in Greek ...

"The Glyptotek has decided in favour of Turkey's request to return the ancient bronze portrait," the museum said in a statement. A statue of the Roman emperor, who lived from AD 145 to 211 ...

By Graham Bowley An ancient bronze thought to be a likeness of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus is to be reunited with its long lost torso after a Danish museum agreed that its sculpture of a ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

This sculpture adorned a Roman garden or fountain, or possibly a child’s grave. Cupid (“Desire”), the Greek Eros, god of love, is represented as a young boy asleep on a rock covered with Herakles’s ...

Credit: Jean Léon Gérôme / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Roman gladiatorial games were a far cry ... They were sometimes called hordearii, meaning “eaters of barley.” Modern statue of Galen in ...