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

There are many reasons an ancient statue might accidentally lose its head — and some for its head to be severed on purpose.

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

The great Roman statesman Cicero, for example, wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the huntress goddess Artemis with “precious unguents,” as well as ...

Since physical traces of ancient perfumes on statues are nearly nonexistent, Brøns turned to textual sources. One of her earliest examples comes from the Roman writer Cicero (106–43 BCE), who ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

An ancient statue depicting the Greek god Hermes was uncovered by archaeologists inside an around 2,000-year-old Roman sewer in Bulgaria. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...

What's more, Roman sculptors would sometimes deliberately design their statues with removable heads that "popped out" at the ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

So why are so many Roman statues headless? Answering that question requires some "archaeological CSI" work, said Rachel Kousser, a classics and art history professor at Brooklyn College and the ...