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As the goddess of love, beauty and sexual pleasure, Aphrodite inspired cult worship ... the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity. They were painted with a ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

The head, possibly depicting Jupiter, Apollo, Serapis, or a philosopher, was found reused in the Basilica of Santo Stefano.

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was recently discovered at an archaeological site in North Korea. The Goryeo study saw the flourishing of Buddhist art and architecture ...

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Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are ...

April 14, 2025 • Did you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of ...