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There's outrage and disbelief over the vandalism of a statue at San Francisco's Legion of Honor Museum.
One might think that every piece of ancient Greek statuary is on display in a museum, but in reality, Greeks today continue to find pieces of the past in their everyday lives. The latest find is ...
The ECHR rejected an appeal of its ruling that Italy has the right to reclaim a prized bronze statue, nicknamed the “Getty Bronze," by the Getty Museum in California.
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 ...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has returned a pair of looted ancient Greek statues to Libya, one of which had been on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1998.
Law & Politics A Court Rules the Getty Museum’s Prized Ancient Greek Statue Belongs to Italy Italian authorities tried and failed to claim the statue before the museum acquired it in 1977.
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.
From the chiseled perfection of a Greek god carved from marble to the serene tranquility of a Buddha cast in bronze, the way ...
An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological museum in Olympia, Greece, in 2012. The motivation for scenting and adorning statues was primarily religious.