A marble sculpture featuring ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite will be offered at a single-lot sale on Dec. 7 at Sotheby's London, with a presale estimate between £2 million and £3 million (US$2.66 ...

If you've held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they're worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

The Submerged Archaeological Park of Baia, located off the coast of Naples, continues to reveal ancient Roman splendors. Archaeological crews working underwater discovered and restored an ancient ...

A rare marble statue from the Roman period has been unearthed in an ancient city that was devastated by earthquakes around 1,600 years ago. The "exceptionally preserved" statue was found in the sewage ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

JERUSALEM — Moving a 4.7-ton piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that was once part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, making sure it is transported ...

The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been ...

The "secret" journeys of Emperor Hadrian have been discovered on a white marble slab in an ancient Roman city. The white marble, found in the Ostia Antica archeological park, southwest of Rome, ...

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 ...

A newly discovered piece of the Fasti Ostientes was a perfect match for a fragment discovered years ago, according to Italy’s Ministry of Culture. Ministero Della Cultura More than 2,400 years ago, ...

NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and the Kimbell Museum of Art invite you to experience Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection, an exhibition of ancient Roman sculptures. The ...