We just learned about the ancient Egyptian sculpture the Block Statue of Pa-Ankh-Ra.
The ancient Greeks were also very famous for their sculptures.
One famous sculpture that has survived through the years is the Charioteer of Delphi.
It is a bronze sculpture of a man on a chariot, made to honor someone after they had won a race in a competition like the Olympics.
It was made to look like the person at the end of the race after winning, calm, confident and happy.
The statue has lost it's arm, and it used to have horses with it also.
It still has it's glass eyes, but it is missing its silver eyelashes and headband.
Many bronze statues were melted down for the metal long after they were made, but this statue had been buried under a building that had collapsed, so it survived and was found hundreds of years later.
Statues like this were usually made in a few different pieces and then put together when they were all sculpted.
(from: wikipedia - charioteer of delphi)
(from: wikipedia - charioteer of delphi)
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