The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, though not altogether headless. Despite no cranium on the Greek hero, the ...

Vesta, which is named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth (more about that in a minute), came about as a result of the June 2023 closure of 12-year-old Vintage 1891. "From the get-go ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

Demeter is the Greek equivalent of Ceres ... and reveals the kinds of war we are apt to wage. Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth and home. photoguns – stock.adobe.com Named for the ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...