When federal agents raided four museums in Los Angeles last month to seize artworks allegedly involved in smuggling, it raised a natural question. Could the Cleveland Museum of Art be next? If so, one ...

STORY: The metal structures that for more than three centuries had been supporting the fountain – consisting of 13 statues and weighing 33 tons – had rusted and warped, leaving the fountain in need of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The city of Pompeii -- devastated by Vesuvius in AD 79 -- remains one of ...

When federal agents raided four museums in Los Angeles last month to seize artworks allegedly involved in smuggling, it raised a natural question. Could the Cleveland Museum of Art be next? If so, one ...

Gaza (CNN) — When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse. “I was afraid,” he told CNN. “I put on my ...

New excavations at the ancient thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany, Italy have yielded a life-sized, well-preserved statue of the mythical figure Apollo Sauroktonos—the latest discovery ...

Archaeologists excavating a cult sanctuary in San Casciano dei Bagni found a broken statue of Apollo the Lizard-Slayer, photos show. Photo from the Italian Culture Ministry Centuries ago, a marble ...

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi’s Apollo Belvedere has been donated to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum in lieu of a £10.5 million ($13.1 million) inheritance tax bill. The rare parcel-gilt bronze with ...

In September 2023, the excavations conducted by the Aristotle University team in Philippi (the Macedonian city founded by Philip II, after whom it was named) concluded under the direction of Professor ...

The Apollo Belvedere—chiseled in the second century, excavated from a ruin over a millennium later, and installed at the Vatican in the early 16th century—has come to be regarded as the epitome of ...