ROME, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A marble elephant designed by Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini has been damaged, with its left ...

A lot of the time, great discoveries happen by a complete accident. At least, that was the case in Bulgaria last week when a crew of archaeologists unexpectedly unearthed a centuries-old artifact ...

The marble used for both the statues and the Duomo itself comes from the quarries of Candoglia in Italy’s Piedmont region.

A marble elephant designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini has been damaged in Rome. Its left tusk was found snapped off, leading to speculation over whether it was vandalized or fell due to heavy rains.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At one point, the Roman Empire reached from one end of the European continent to the other. Roman cultural heritage similarly ...

Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an ...

A rare marble statue from the Roman period has been unearthed in an ancient city that was devastated by earthquakes around 1,600 years ago. The "exceptionally preserved" statue was found in the sewage ...

For a city in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire, attaining eleutheria was highly coveted. The word means liberty in Greek and granted a city the right to run its own administrative and legal affairs ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two thousand years ago in Rome an artist sculpted a marble statue of a general's head. The bust ended up in a Bavarian King's museum in Germany centuries later before disappearing ...

A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the ...