Cleveland Museum of Art A headless bronze statue that may depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius will be repatriated to Turkey after an investigation determined that it had been ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen. By Tom Mashberg and Graham ...

The statue, known in Cleveland for many years as “Draped Male Figure” or “The Philosopher,” is valued at $20 million and is believed to be of former Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ...

The bronze statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Turkey in the 1960s, is set to return to the country. The statue, considered one of the rare bronze works of the ancient age ...

A headless ancient bronze statue, believed to depict either the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius or an unnamed philosopher, is set to return to Turkey after decades in a U.S. museum. The Cleveland Museum ...

The headless bronze statue was thought to represent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. New scientific testing has concluded it was likely looted from Turkey in the 1960s. After 18 months of ...

In 2023, the New York County Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, or NYATU, had seized a statue in the collection of ...

The testing also supported CMA's recent determination that the statue is likely not, as previously believed, a depiction of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius but a statue of a Greek philosopher. “The ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Aspendos in southwestern Türkiye recently uncovered a life-size statue of the ...

Mary at the Marcus Aurelius statue Amy Richlin from UCLA is writing a book on these early letters from the emperor. She agrees he was “certainly immature” but believes this is all about the ...

Turkey’s claim had at one point hinged in part on convincing investigators that the statue in fact depicts Marcus Aurelius because a stone plinth at the site is inscribed with that emperor’s name.