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

It was celebrated in the ancient world as a milestone in art, since it was the first full-sized naked statue of a female figure (technically, in this case, a goddess in human form), after ...

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 ...