A massive 18-inch penis sculpture was recently uncovered at an ancient Roman site in Spain. (Image credit: Historical Museum of Nueva Carteya) A girthy stone penis sculpture recently uncovered at ...

Ancient Rome was a curious mixture of civilisation and barbarism. Saucy sculpture As the sculpture of Pan and the goat attests, sex pervaded Roman culture as much as violence.

Ancient Roman Sculpture Likely Looted During WWII Turns Up at Texas Goodwill Experts are debating who the bust portrays, but they agree on one thing—a thrift store is an unusual spot to find a ...

Titled “ Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures, according to a statement from the museum.

Any temporary exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago would be notable, because 44 years have passed since the museum’s last such offering — an astoundingly long ...

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.

Special, indeed. A Sotheby's consultant eventually determined that the $35 sculpture was in fact a marble Julio-Claudian-era Roman bust. It had taken years to determine the authenticity of the bust.

Authorities say they don't know when the statue entered the U.S. It is believed to been the top of an 1,800-year-old sarcophagus of a Roman noblewoman, possibly looted in the 1970s or early '80s.

One day in July, Gina Borromeo, the curator of ancient art at the risd Museum, walked me through the Greek and Roman galleries, and pointed out a label that she’d written in 2009: “The ...

A woman bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $34.99. It actually was a missing ancient Roman bust. Jordan Mendoza USA TODAY 0:00 ...