The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming.

According to an essay penned by a University of Iowa professor, seeing white-marble sculpture “continues to influence white supremacist ideas,” and it’s a shame that this is “often ignored.

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was ...

When you think of the ancient world, you probably picture towering buildings of white marble adorned with statues, also made of white marble. You’re not alone — most people picture the same thing.

An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture ... if we know these statues were polychromatic, why do they remain lily white in our popular imagination?

"But nevertheless, he is promoting the white marble sculpture by explaining that sculpture will never reach the full sentiment of a painting because it lacks colour … He tries to establish a new ...

Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware. When you think of ancient sculpture ...

Greek authorities investigating the statue's mysterious appearance say it dates back to the Hellenistic period between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C.

Ancient statues weren't white marble, but “a riot of colour and glitzy decoration." It shows that we've imagined the ancient world all wrong, writes Natalie Haynes. When the Victorian painter ...