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 Brøns, who ...

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 ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...

The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.

The headless statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was looted from the Bubon archaeological site nearly six decades ago. (all photos courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art, unless otherwise noted) A 1,800 ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues. The vandalism ...

Bill Rau, president of M.S. Rau gallery, is interviewed next to Dutch master Vincent van Gogh's painting titled "Head of a Peasant Woman in a White Headdress", one of the highlights of the European ...