Thanks to the artist Haroun Binous, we now see that Roman emperor Augustus was the heartthrob Daniel Craig of the ancient ...

Excavations across the ancient city of Perga revealed five new statue finds from as far back as the second century A.D. The most impressive discovery was a 6.5-foot-tall statue of Aphrodite, sitting ...

A new statue unveiled in recent days in Iran depicts a Roman emperor in subjection to a Persian king. Erected in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the statue titled Kneeling Before Iran shows the emperor ...

"Draped Male Figure" (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In a previous description on the museum's website, the headless statue was described as “The Emperor as Philosopher, ...

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 ...

In 1957, the first fragments of statues were discovered at Sperlonga, Emperor Tiberius's pleasure palace from the first century A.D. But when Italian officials tried to take the relics to Rome, the ...

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

A relief of the harbor at Portus dating to the second or third century C.E. Torlonia Foundation / Lorenzo De Masi One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by ...

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 ...

An international team of archaeologists has discovered in the ancient Egyptian port of Berenike (or Berenice), on the coast ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...