The artifact, found off the coast of Italy, is believed to depict a larger-than-life male torso, archaeologists said.

The marble head, a male face with thick hair and an intense expression, remained hidden for centuries beneath the square of ...

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A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult.. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different from the ones we see in museums today. While most surviving Greco-Roman sculptural artifacts are pristinely white, thousands of years ago ...

Not a single Roman work of art—sculpture, coinage, or painting—displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and related ideologies." Elon Musk wields a chainsaw as he leaves the ...

Next to the Aphrodite statue, crews found a six-foot-tall carving of a standing woman draped in a tunic, crafted in a style reminiscent of the Roman empire’s Severan dynasty (193 to 235 A.D.).

For example, in one of the most complete iconographic monuments to Roman militarism and imperialism, Trajan’s Column (built in Rome in AD 113 with the spoils from the Dacian wars in what is now ...

The Roman salute was adopted soon after by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who came to power in 1922. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party adopted it in 1926, calling it the German salute.

The Hitler salute’s American connection: the Bellamy salute. During the late-19th century, the idea of sticking one’s arm out in such a manner found its way into American culture through the ‘Bellamy ...