Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no longer exist.

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

Excavations across the ancient city of Perga revealed five new statue finds from as far back as the second century A.D. The ...

Statue of Aphrodite found in Perge. Credit: General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums (Ministry of Culture of Turkiye) As part of the Geleceğe Miras (Legacy for the Future) project, the ...

Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless Greco-Roman bronze statue that was pillaged from ... more than 1,000 antiquities stolen from more than two dozen countries have been repatriated.

The Princess of Wales is standing on top of a tree stump with her arms outstretched in the image. She was bundled up in a jacket, scarf and hat during winter in the U.K. A second photo posted on ...

Archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery under an office block in London: the remains of the city's first Roman basilica ... intact foundations of a two-storey building, nearly the ...

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The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed the heart of Roman London have been uncovered during building work in the center of the British capital. About 2,000 years old ...

A Jan. 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims a statue of George Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a white police officer sparked nationwide racial justice protests in ...