Researchers also discovered several movable finds, including statues of Aphrodite and clay heads of female figures.

Column of Trajan, Scene 53, detail of the altar group. The figure with her back to the center-right may be a woman. Credit: Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali / Museo della Civiltà Romana The ...

Removing statues has made the headlines in recent years, with controversies around colonial figures, from Cecil Rhodes ... Caribbean communities in the form of a statue of a Black woman holding ...

Of the 828 statues it recorded, 174 of them were female - around one in five. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Looking just at named women rather than nameless female figures whittles the ...