A Los Angeles museum faces pressure to return an ancient work of art to Italy. Italian courts said the J. Paul Getty Museum should send back a bronze statue known as Victorious Youth, showing a very ...

Ancient Greek statues and artistic treasures housed in Paris museums depict the Greeks' influence on the entire European ...

ROMEROME — A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

In 1900, a team of sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera surfaced with more than they bargained for. Among the ...

Dozens of beautifully preserved, 2,000-year-old bronze statues were found in what Italian authorities are calling an "exceptional" discovery from a sacred thermal spring that will “rewrite history.” ...

The discus throw event has been included in every modern Olympics since its inaugural 1896 edition held in Athens (where Robert Garrett representing the United States won the gold medal), and can be ...

A trove of bronze statues that archeologists say could rewrite the history of Italy's transition to the Roman Empire have been discovered in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. Italy's Ministry of ...

Recent archaeological findings in Tuscany have shed new light on ancient Etruscan practices, revealing a stunning collection of bronze statues and coins. This discovery, made at a sacred thermal ...

ROME – A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an important ...