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 ...

Roman sculptors specialized in ultra-realistic, warts-and-all portrait busts. While Roman sculptors famously copied idealized Greek originals and dramatic scenes of myths, they specialized in ...