Labourers digging a ditch to lay gas pipes in Athens uncovered an ancient marble statue and Roman-era archeological ... imperial period from the first to fifth century" was found near the Odeon ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... of Apollo was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Roman house in 1489. It has been at the Vatican ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient ... gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis.

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting ... reliefs made between the first century BC and the first century ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed ... the second and first century B.C.E.). Tombs of ...

The oldest and most accepted group of foreign deities were the gods of ancient ... By the first century before the common era, however, his identity had merged with the more serious Roman god ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...