The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming.

The knowledge that the Greek and Roman sculpture was brightly painted isn't new. In one gallery, there's a watercolor of parts of the Acropolis when it was excavated in 1888 - it's clear that the ...

Archaeology & History A Headless Ancient Sculpture Just Turned Up in the Trash in Greece Police are investigating how the diminutive Hellenistic-period figure ended up there.

Archaeology & History Greek Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Marble Workshop Filled With Unfinished Statues Images of Aphrodite and other female figures have been uncovered on the island of Paros.

The knowledge that the Greek and Roman sculpture was brightly painted isn't new. In one gallery, there's a watercolor of parts of the Acropolis when it was excavated in 1888 - it's clear that the ...

The exhibition, which the museum called “groundbreaking,” is the vision of ancient sculpture — 2700 B.C. to the third century A.D. — pioneered by Vinzenz Brinkmann, 63, and his wife ...