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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 ...

In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

There is already significant interest from a major U.S. museum, says David Aaron gallery.

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...