When it comes to ancient Roman imperial architecture, most people usually have a mental image of white marble statues, columns, or slabs. While it is true that many buildings and squares at that ...

Photograph by Sergio Pitamitz, Nat Geo Image Collection Just south of Delos ... Samothrace and Venus de Milo—were sculpted from marble slabs sourced on Paros. A prized resource, the marble ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...

Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs of white marble to those living in ancient times. The study’s Danish author ...

The remains of five marble statues have been rescued from anonymity and placed standing using a special frame between the southern portion of the basilica and the odeon, a small covered theater.