As soft and luxurious as this pillow looks, hopping into bed and laying your head down on it will probably give you a headache. Norwegian sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås is renowned for his ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the "beautiful" head of a marble statue thought to depict an ancient Greco-Roman god. A team led by Natalia Poulou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki found the ...

An 1,800-year-old marble figurine, depicting an aquatic water nymph, has been unearthed by archaeologists during excavations of an ancient Roman bathhouse. The site, named La Alcudia, is located near ...

DAYTONA BEACH — For four years, local residents have followed the evolution of the idea to have a Mary McLeod Bethune sculpture representing Florida in the U.S. Capitol Building. On Tuesday, they got ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, ...

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Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek ...

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...