The ravages of time have not been kind to many ancient Roman statues. Indeed, many of these Classical sculptures were discovered centuries later in various states of disrepair, often without their heads!

However, there may be other explanations for the ubiquitous headless statues of antiquity beyond the more obvious damages caused by weathering, exposure, erosion, and neglect that these sculptures had to endure over the centuries.

In fact, the Romans would on occasion deliberately remove the heads from statues themselves, so at least some of these ancient statues were discovered as they were last left by the Romans themselves.

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