Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

An Ancient North African Civilization Sacrificed Their Young Children to Gods as Part of a Religious Practice In ancient Carthage, (now in Tunisia) the civilization used to follow brutal rituals of ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

Greek and Roman gods evoked fear, awe and envy. Their names now control trillions of dollars of your money. Janus, Apollo, ...

The numeral IX is written as X (10) - I (1), which equals 9. While Roman numerals (unsurprisingly) date back to ancient Rome, they are used in many facets of society beyond the Super Bowl, including ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer Ataysin, an ...

One might think that every piece of ancient Greek statuary ... which include a marble-paved Roman road and tens of thousands of artifacts from the Greek, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods, are ...

From ancient ... prestige. Roman and Greek leaders paired their portraits with specific symbols of power or godliness. A coin with a bust of Galerius Maximianus on one side has the god Jupiter ...

The metro network took roughly two decades to complete as the tunneling exposed Greek burial sites, an early Christian basilica, a Roman-era thoroughfare and ancient water and drainage systems.