Hadrian’s statue is depicted wearing military garb, with the features of a lion and eagle carved into the emperor’s armor.

How do you carve, transport, and erect a single block statue weighing over 1,000 tons, out of composite quartzite, flint, or ...

The statue’s unique style hints at a vanished empire.

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 ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. Reading time 3 minutes Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked ...

Many ancient Greek statues depict male figures with what we might consider today to be small penises. This is quite intentional.

Earlier today I wrote about a statue in Dublin that perverts keep groping. Now we get word that statues used to be even more alluring. New research suggests that Greek and Roman marble statues used to ...