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For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

At a dig on the site of Floga, Parikia, archaeologists found a large number of unfinished marble statues—evidence of the organized production of artwork in an ancient sculpture workshop ...

airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C., Greek sculptors began imitating the world around them, and glorifying the sensual human form. Even now, ancient Greek ...

Whether standing stones, nondescript mounds, or lines in the earth, ancient civilizations have ... from volcanic tuff with hand tools, the statues were transported somehow to positions on stone ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...