A construction worker first discovered the marble head of the statue during work on a new visitor parking lot for Burghley House in the spring of 2023 Burghley House A “mysterious” Roman statue, ...

(CNN) — A Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has been discovered by construction workers building a parking lot in the United Kingdom. Digger driver Greg Crawley uncovered the marble head of ...

The Worcester Art Museum has transferred ownership of the bronze bust "Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus Aurelius?)" to the New York County District Attorney’s Office so it can be repatriated ...

A mysterious, 1,800-year-old Roman bust was discovered during the construction of a new car park at Burghley House, near Stamford, the U.K. Burghley is one of the last remaining examples of great ...

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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A bronze bust believed to depict the daughter of an ancient Roman emperor has been seized from an art museum in Massachusetts by New York authorities investigating antiquities ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two thousand years ago in Rome an artist sculpted a marble statue of a general's head. The bust ended up in a Bavarian King's museum in Germany centuries later before disappearing ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

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 ...

The bronze bust, believed to depict the daughter of an ancient Roman emperor, was turned over to New York authorities investigating antiquities stolen from Turkey. WORCESTER, Mass. — A bronze bust ...