Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

Text from ancient Greek and Roman writers describes how statues of deities—including Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals—were anointed with perfumes. Jastrow / Public domain via ...

Around the second or third century C.E., a gold ring bearing the likeness of the Roman goddess Venus was lost on a road in what is now Brittany, France. The exact circumstances of the jewelry’s ...

An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory has been unearthed at Hadrian’s Wall by amateur archaeologists.. The symbolic find of the winged goddess was discovered in a reused pile ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

Archaeologists in southwestern Bulgaria have spent the early part of July excavating a 6-foot-8 marble statue of Hermes, a god of Greek mythology, that they found in an ancient Roman sewer.

A marble statue of Hermes from the Roman Imperial Period was found during the 2024 excavation season in the ... Hermes is known in Greek mythology as the god of roads, commerce, hospitality ...