A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological site of Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic in the 1920s, is considered ...

Though it's often not possible to know for certain how a statue lost its head ... his portraits were damaged or reworked.

For instance, many portraits of the notorious emperor Nero were intentionally damaged or altered. Roman sculptors sometimes ...