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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Archaeologists from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki unearthed a well-preserved marble head of the Greek god Apollo in Philippi, northwest Greece, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd century C.E. Led by ...
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 ...
Archaeologists excavating ruins on the uninhabited island of Despotiko found several 2,400-year-old temple statues, photos show. Photo from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports Entering the temple ...
The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been looted that were handed over to Turkey at a ceremony in Manhattan. By Tom ...