The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...

Archaeologists have found a trove of artifacts, including two statues of the goddess Venus, in a Roman-era quarry-turned-trash-dump. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Venus of Willendorf—an 11.1 cm tall stone figure carved 30,000 years ago from oolitic limestone by Europe’s first people, the Gravettians—is one of the world’s most important cultural artifacts.

In October of 1907, the Tanana Valley celebrated “Alaska Day” and an interesting object of Fairbanks art was created around that same time from Fairbanks gold. This igneous History Nugget has been ...

In a rare meeting between the classical and the contemporary, Gagosian’s Paris gallery has staged a show pairing an ancient Roman sculpture with work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The sculpture of the ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered a trove of up to 1,800-year-old artifacts — including statuettes of the goddess Venus, a potter's kiln, coins and clothing pins — in a rare location: a Roman ...