Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek ... state), Juno (protector of women) and Minerva (goddess ...

After examining ancient texts, researchers found references to the use of perfumes and scented oils on the statues of gods ... from the Greek island of Paros, the figure of a young woman had ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich To find out what the Greek gods ... statue Tinted Venus (1851-56) has honey hair and rose lips. One 19th-century reviewer dismissed it as "a naked impudent English ...

The most famous temple in Greece was the Parthenon in Athens. Inside stood a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of the city. When people needed help from the gods, they went to the temple ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman ... worshipped for representing gods.) ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...