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 ...

The bronze statue was originally located in the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii and dates from about 100 BC, according to the Getty. The majority of the figure was unearthed in pieces in 1817, and a ...

A colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, has emerged from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists announced.

As for the Apollo's provenance, the gaps remain. A retired German lawyer, Ernst-Ulrich Walter, said in 2004 that he found the work lying in pieces in 1993 or 1994 when he reclaimed his family's ...

Last summer, a life-size bronze statue of Apollo, the ancient Greek god of light and music, miraculously surfaced in Gaza. The work of art, which is 1.7 metres tall and weighs 450 kilograms, could ...

Rocket Mortgage has partnered with Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to install a new bronze statue of the Apollo 11 astronauts in honor of the moon landing mission's 50th anniversary.

Apollo 13 crewmates Jim Lovell and Fred Haise strike the poses of their new statues at Space Center Houston. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com) "I was not feeling very well, despite my smiling face ...

Biloxi has unveiled a statue to honor an Apollo 13 astronaut who grew up in the town. A crowd turned out Sunday in Biloxi to cheer on Fred Haise Jr., 88.Haise Jr. left his handprints in concrete and ...

The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek statue. Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images. The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a ...

The marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return on display following its restoration, at the Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images.

Like the Hercules statue, it dates back to the 2nd or early 3rd century AD and likely adorned the fountain, which took its final form in the 8th-9th centuries. We know from sources and archaeological ...