The reconstructed statue was installed in a garden in Rome’s Capitoline Museums this week, close to where the Temple of Jupiter, the most important temple of ancient Rome, once stood.

Experts believe the figure represents a Greek warrior, perhaps from The Iliad: maybe the Spartan king Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus, or maybe Ajax doing the same with Achilles.Some even ...

Citing the survey, Montanari notes that Milan had just one statue of a woman at the time, compared with 125 men, while the busts of Risorgimento-era heroes honoured on the Janiculum Hill in Rome ...

03/18/2025 March 18, 2025. The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies.

Archaeologists excavating 2,000-year-old Etruscan temple in San Casciano found plants, bronze figures left in water as gifts, photos show. Ancient eggs, snake statues found in hot spring in Italy ...

Archaeologists excavating 2,000-year-old Etruscan temple in San Casciano found plants, bronze figures left in water as gifts, photos show. Ancient eggs, snake statues found in hot spring in Italy ...

Archaeologists in Rome uncovered a colossal ancient marble head near Trajan’s Forum, possibly depicting Emperor Trajan or the ...

The statue measures about 6 feet wide and about 5 feet tall, the organization said. Its style matches the decoration of ancient Greek temples, and it likely came from a temple dedicated to Zeus.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in a gesture former ...

The statue measures about 6 feet wide and about 5 feet tall, the organization said. Its style matches the decoration of ancient Greek temples, and it likely came from a temple dedicated to Zeus.

Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in a gesture former culture minister Francesco Rutelli described as a “miracle” of Italian cultural diplomacy. Constructed in the ...